glauben machen

August 30, 2011 6:31 PM

SLYT The Brandt, Braur, Frick ensemble and Emika performing her song "Pretend".

No comment, other than it's in serious danger of replacing Les Tetes Raides jammed reading of Stig Dagerman's fantastic suicide-curious absurdist classic Vårt behov av tröst är omättligt on the top of my most beautifully laid back songs list.

posted by titus-g (10 comments total)

Which would of course be Têtes Raides - Notre besoin de consolation... (Live)
posted by titus-g at 6:45 PM on August 30, 2011

SLYT

Um. You don't know what the "S" stands for, do you?
posted by dersins at 7:24 PM on August 30, 2011

He doesn't know how to use the three seashells!
posted by nathancaswell at 7:34 PM on August 30, 2011 [3 favorites]

Um. Yes. Sublime.


no?
posted by titus-g at 7:40 PM on August 30, 2011

Um. You don't know what the "S" stands for, do you?

Sarcasm, obviously!
posted by Malice at 7:42 PM on August 30, 2011

I have a spot of trouble making out what she's singing, but have to say I enjoyed her vocals and really dug watching these guys play. They obviously know what they are doing.
posted by cjorgensen at 7:42 PM on August 30, 2011

I really like her tracks "double edge" and "drop the other" - super spooky, slightly pained and haunting stuff --- has great potential. I must have listened to them hundreds of times. Hope she returns to that soon and gets a whole album out.
posted by fake at 8:09 PM on August 30, 2011

I just listened to 'Surge - Emika Version" Amon Tobin on Spotify and thought it quite kicked ass.
posted by cjorgensen at 8:12 PM on August 30, 2011

Ever since I heard the Bad Plus play Aphex Twin with acoustic instruments, I've felt that acoustic renderings of songs that began as electronic is really fertile ground. Thanks for posting this.
posted by umbú at 9:03 PM on August 30, 2011

I love Brandt Brauer Frick - just found out about them a couple weeks ago thanks to this video.

Emika is new to me, and (having listened to this live version of the same song without BBF), not as much my cup of tea. But big respect to both acts for this collision of styles.
posted by richyoung at 9:32 PM on August 30, 2011