Yoo Doo Right announces a new album with the 16-minute post-rock epic, “Feet Together, Face Up, On The Front Lawn”

by Stephan Boissonneault

I’ve seen Yoo Doo Right live four times, twice back-to-back at the FME festival, and I will never grow tired of their sound. They’re a band that will stop you dead in your tracks, leaving you in a pit of endless head-banging, and then offer brief moments of sonic respite only to launch you back into the pit again. This is what the 16-minute post-rock dirge “Feet Together, Face Up, On The Front Lawn” does. The band creates a pocket universe of guitar trilling, bass-defying, rhythm drums-led suffocation, and then slowly destroys it. It’s been their closing set song for months now, and for good reason.

The accompanying video, created by Mackenzie Reid Rostad, is a visual aid in the chaos. Various repetitive images of fences, highways, power lines and industrial plants take up the scenery in a darkened Sepia tone.

The song previews Yoo Doo Right’s sophomore LP, Murmur, Boundless to the East, out via Mothland on June 10.
The five-song, 45-minute record — the follow-up to their acclaimed debut album Don’t Think You Can Escape Your Purpose—was recorded live-off-the-floor at Hotel2Tango with producer Radwan Ghazi Moumneh (Suuns, Fly Pan Am) and features contributions by violinist Jessica Moss (Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra).

Art Punk / Avant-Punk / Experimental / Contemporary

La Sécurité – Suspens

by Rédaction PAN M 360

Birthed out of a collaboration between some of the finest past and present members of indie/post-punk projects: Chose Sauvages, Laurence-Anne, Punk Explosion, Vanille, Silver Dapple, and Jesuslesfilles—Montreal’s newest experimental art-punks, La Sécurité, have released their first single “Suspens,” via Mothland.

A bit French Yeah Yeah Yeahs, a bit Devo, La Sécurité has a minimalist disco-punk sound perfect for returning to what we once deemed normal. This debut track has just the right amount of energy to usher in a new era of thoughtful art dance.

“With “Suspens“, La Sécurité now paint sonic graffitis of their own, evoking a polymorphic reality, through themes such as restlessness or awesome clothes.”

Check it below:

Gus Englehorn – Exercise your Demons

by Patrice Caron

A new single from his second album Dungeon Master, due April 29 via Secret City Records.

Art Pop / Folk Pop / Pop / soul-pop

Aldous Harding – Fever

by Luc Marchessault

Our favourite New Zealander reveals another single from Warm Chris, her fourth studio album to be released on March 28. Over a downtempo soul ballad and a circus-like atmosphere, Aldous Harding shows off from various angles and in different outfits, tells us that “Neil Young” is worth 19 points in Scrabble, and then takes us to a barn dance where everyone wears a homemade bib with a big letter sewn into it. For a moment, we fear that the whole thing will turn into a Midsommar pagan ritual, but, thank God, it doesn’t.

Experimental / Contemporary / No Wave / Noise Rock / Post-Punk

Grim Streaker – “Mind”

by Stephan Boissonneault

A fusion of post-punk, No wave, and some noise, Grim Streaker has a music video fever dream. It’s looks and feels like something you’d see after pulling over the curtain in the Black Lodge.

The track comes just in time for the release of the MIND EP, out today via Mothland. Listen below.

Word from the Directors

“‘Mind’ is a uniquely dynamic song. We knew the video had to match the song’s frenetic energy in the visuals and pacing, and we wanted to incorporate a narrative based on the themes presented. The visual textures felt right for the song, as they both breathe and feel organic in ways that complement each other so well. The edit matches the pacing of the song perfectly, reinforcing its turbulent nature.”

– Directors Stephen Mondics & Devan Davies-Wood

Post-Punk / Synth-Punk / Synthwave

Sunglaciers – “Out of my Skull”

by Stephan Boissonneault

Calgary’s icy post-punks, Sunglaciers, are inching closer and closer to the release of their anticipated Subterranea LP, and have a music video for the darkened and minimalist “Out of my Skull.” Subterranea is out March 25 via Mothland. Until then, check out “Out of my Skull” below.

“Out of my Skull’ is dark but it’s lively. I shot in black and white to lend a bit of a classic, noir vibe to the video, which also helped bring out some of my innate 90s influence,” says band member and director, Evan Resnik.

“The lyrics loosely reference Miles Davis and a few moments from his life: his hiatus from 1975-80, a shooting in 1969, being assaulted by a cop outside Birdland in 1959. I watched a lot of music documentaries in early 2020 when we began writing this record. Miles was a mysterious and brooding artist, and that initial inspiration helped me get into that mindset during the songwriting and throughout the video production. The video is intimate but detached, with close-up faces in contrasting, unreal environments. We’re in your face, but we’re not really there.”

Indie Rock

Destroyer – Tintoretto, It’s for You

by Rédaction PAN M 360

Daniel Bejar, better known as Destroyer, is back in 2022 with an album announcement and an esoteric video single called “Tintoretto, It’s for You.” The song is somewhat of a free-verse mystery as Bejar sings in his romantic, mythical minstrel voice backed by pounding drums, dark jazz piano, and the odd off-timed synth.

Fragments of sentences form while imagery of arcane beasts appear as Bejar walks through the music video, following a bunch of red herrings that ultimately lead to nowhere. I learned long ago that deriving a complete meaning from a Destroyer track is pointless. For example, “Tintoretto,” could be a reference to the Italian painter, but it could also be from a lost voice memo Bejar recorded on his phone. The track is a preview to Destroyer’s 13th album, LABYRINTHITIS, out March 25.

Avant-Pop / Electro-Pop / Pop / Soul/R&B / Trip Hop

FKA twigs – Measure of a Man ft. Central Cee

by Rédaction PAN M 360

If Agent 007 were a female samurai, he would probably look like FKA Twigs in this clip. Director Diana Kunst sumptuously put on video a single titled Measure of a Man. We should hear this song in the soundtrack of The King’s Man, the third installment of the spy series Kingsman from Marvel Studios, starting December 22. Otherwise, we’re still waiting for the mixtape announced by FKA twigs in early 2021.

Funk / Synth-Pop

Fishbach – Masque d’or

by Rédaction PAN M 360

We are patiently waiting for Flora Fischbach’s new album, scheduled for February 2022. In the meantime, she is releasing some singles: after Téléportation last week, here is Masque d’or, with a video directed and animated by Aymeric Bergada de Cadet, who also made über-videos for Léa Vincent, La Femme, Régina Demina, and L’Impératrice.

First Nations / Pop

Beatrice Deer – The Storm

by Rédaction PAN M 360

Beatrice Deer is back with a salvo of inuindie pop. After History, unveiled in October, here is The Storm, the second single from the album Shifting, her sixth, which will be released on December 10th. Here is the video, directed by Robb Jamieson who introduces it as follows:

“The video for The Storm follows a weatherman who loses his cool on the air following his firing. Climate change and career setbacks snowball into a contemporary dance deluge. We wonder if it was all in his head or if it was broadcast live to thousands.”

Orchestral Pop / Pop / Singer-Songwriter

Jarvis Cocker – Aline

by Rédaction PAN M 360

This cover of Christophe’s megahit by Jarvis Cocker is on the soundtrack of Wes Anderson’s new film, The French Dispatch. Anderson directed the clip, which serves as the film’s opening credits. Jarvis Cocker lends his voice to the character of Ti-Top, played by Bruno Delbonnel. Cocker has just released Chansons d’Ennui Tip-Top, a companion album to The French Dispatch‘s soundtrack, with related covers (Dutronc, Ferrer, Gainsbourg, Hardy, Laforêt, Dalida and so on).

Indie Rock

Spoon – The Hardest Cut

by Rédaction PAN M 360

Pan M’s good news of the day: Spoon will release Lucifer on the Sofa on February 11th! To help us wait, the Austin-based band has posted a video of them playing the single The Hardest Cut to an audience that is dancing, if not smiling. This three minute twenty six second neo-noir film features some unforgiving elements: the riffs of Britt Daniel and his colleagues as well as one of the characters, who may not be the one you thought.