Don’t Forget About The Starfish Navigation System

Solex “You’ve Got Me” – Moody space jams, deep spooky male vocals and Royal Trux-ish guitar noodling are not at all what would normally come to mind when one thinks of Solex, but that’s exactly what’s on offer here. Elisabeth Esselink’s distinctive chirpy voice does pop up here and there throughout the song, but the real star of this piece is the anonymous Australian dude on lead vocals. Apparently he and Elisabeth have never met, and he just sent her some recordings of him singing The White Album a cappella because he liked the previous Solex albums. I’m very fond of the lead guitar on this track, particularly towards the end when it shifts from woozy stoner haze to classic rawk boogie strut. (Click here to buy it from Amazon.)

Black Moth Super Rainbow “Viet Caterpillar” – Much like Air, Black Moth Super Rainbow specialize in mellow psychedelia with classic analog keyboard textures and vocals vocodered beyond the point of comprehensibility, seemingly ready-made to appear in tv ads for blue jeans and computers. Don’t hold that against them, though, since the music is still pretty good and not quite as nondescript as you might think. “Viet Caterpillar” is a bit like Moon Safari reimagined by American kids raised on video games, or the soundtrack of an educational documentary for children cut up and remixed by backpacker DJs. (Click here to buy it directly from the band.)

Elsewhere: I highly recommend checking out Anthony Miccio‘s turn at hosting Stylus’ Stypod, in which he posts the most unintentionally hilarious Limp Bizkit song that I’ve ever heard. As Anthony says, “Fred Durst is the pinnacle of wtf-itude, a bottomless well of incomprehensible absurdity and should be respected as such.“