You Left Me To My Doom

M83 “Run Into Flowers (Abstrakt Keal Agram Remix)” – I wish that this remix went all the way with its premise. Mixing in hip hop samples and beats with M83’s dreamy keyboard drones is an interesting novelty, but I’d like to hear something like this with rapping all the way through it. Shoegazer hip hop – why not? I’d like to hear hip hop versions of just about every white indie rock subgenre. It’d be nice to have new ways of hearing these familiar sounds, and it would be particularly interesting to hear how non-white, non-indie people would approach the same old ideas.

Ju Ju Babies “Flowers” – One of the reviews for the Electrotrash EP that song is taken from refers to this track as being a “grinding industrial hate anthem,” which almost gets it right. That phrase probably will make you imagine something a bit more thrashy and metal, which this song is not, though it is a) grinding and b) industrial. The most misleading word in that description is “hate” – this is more about passion gone wrong and histrionic bitterness. The singer sounds a bit like a lunatic goth channeling Mark E Smith and Gina X. This isn’t anything that you’d want to hear if you’ve got a headache, but it’s pretty compelling stuff under the right circumstances.