ryanvergel
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thats my favorite song on the album.
here are a few of my favorite 2000s super-layered, rich, lush, transforming and dynamic hits:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uev2J_cBHjQ
Broken Social Scene's 7/4 (Shoreline)- the song features Justin Peroff's steady rhythm on the drums and the vocals of leslie feist and kevin drew. they have a romantic history, and you can hear it in the voices and their resonance with each other. the song is very multi-faceted. you hear trumpet, clean, cymbal-clanging drums, lovely velety bass, awesome shredding guitar, and the classic duet of male/female. you get so many different elements and they dont create cacophony, but instead create this textured sound that feels driving, but smooth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbVeZ-6hI-8
BSS's Pacific Theme- a great instrumental song. you hear a dozen different instruments, and have a rallying arch that climaxes with a horn ensemble. wonderful.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqTOaDQ1Owc
Electric President's Good Morning, Hypocrite- Jacksonville duo Alex Kane and Ben Cooper. Ben is the vocals, and the major contributor. this is a great example of a poppy song that is completely unknown and non-commercial. deep, meaningful lyrics, display of different structural and lyrical changes in the song. a really great piece.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXtxydDaHwI
Her Space Holiday's Young Machines- Marc Bianchi is Her Space Holiday. This is his first successful and more widely recognized album. he actually started out as a guitarist in the hardcore scene (bands like Indian Summer and Calm), which seems when you hear the purely electronic mash stlye of young machines. although entirely electronic, the sound still feels organic and lively, instead of somewhat distant and cold (listen to that Radiohead song and tell me you don't feel the tension and yet distance in the song being created by the electronic sounding overlay).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEx4-s0JmZQ
New Buffalo's Recovery- I love this song, and most other female vocally led bands. it sounds dreamy and is very melodic, with different layering of instruments and beats. unique method of keeping the rhythm together using clapping and clanking.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EyI4p0yjDQ
Sigur Ros's Hoppipolla- Icelandic "Victory Rose" band in one of their short songs. a great example of needing no understanding of lyrics in order to appreciate the song. the lyrics and words are literally nonsense to me, so i can only appreciate the way the words and voice work purely on a sound level. it works quite well
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR9VzRd0l-s
M83's Run Into Flowers- Frenchman Anthony Gonzalez is the one-man band of M83. a great electronica/organic hybrid of guitars and driving, fast beats. soft, simple, repeated lyrics layered over loud portions of the song. the entire lyrics of the song are actually "Give me peace and chemicals, I want to run into...". talk about extremely simplistic. this is even more simple than rap! it's not even a complete thought! this guy must be utter trash =P hopefully you've been staring at the morphing, natural but chaotic images of the video that match the song's emotions. this is my favorite song on the album, and the first song I actually heard by this gentleman on his first popular album: "Dead Cities, Red Seas, Lost Ghosts".
hopefully you guys liked some of my examples of really modern, largely electronic, extremely simple lyrical(sometimes less) songs. theyre definitely simple songs, but boy do they sound rich and deep. and theyre all very, very new. and these bands are on the covers of magazines (2 of them, at least!) and the like. there is good stuff out there.
