Never Felt So Good Sleepy Smiling

The Similou “All This Love (Original Mix)” – When I hear songs like this, that make the singer’s life sound like some kind of nonstop carefree joyride, I wonder if they are writing fiction/fantasy, or if these people actually do have astonishingly great lives. I suppose that if you’re going to write something that sounds as incredibly happy as this track, you’d want to match the lyrics to it, but still. I like the song, but if this is in any way non-fiction, I kinda resent them! (Click here to buy it from Juno.)

Clark “Vengeance Drools” – This track reminds me so much of Sonic Ciccone Youth’s “MacBeth,” both in terms of the creepy, dense sound of the recording, but also in how it implies horror in this sideways, knowing sort of way. David Markey’s video for “MacBeth” is among my favorite clips of all time, mainly for the way that he makes a virtue of his total lack of budget and has the tossed-off lo-fi footage work to his advantage by seeming somehow far more scary and weird than something with high production values, if just because it looks like it was made by someone who might actually be insane. (Click here to buy it from Warp.)