Monday, May 5, 2014

Young & Sick

It is honestly hard for me to categorize what I just heard.  Kind of R&B indie electronica?  According to the internet, this is a Dutch artist named Nick Van Hofwegen, who also does cover art (Foster the People's new album, Robin Thicke's Blurred Lines) and has recently been commissioned to do the largest mural on the American West Coast (in LA).  This music video shows a time lapse of that happening:

And that is a Foster the People video/song, not this Y&S band.  But I guess he is the guy on the scaffold. Or maybe that is just painter guy Joe, and the weird Dutch guy just told Joe to go paint a building.  It seems like that painting would have been extremely difficult to do right, so maybe Dutchy Nick was helping Joe make it happen.  Good job, JOE!

Anyway, here is the most popular thing on Spotify, with 83k listens.
Art party video.  So much symbolism about the American fear of changing ice cube shapes and inadequate compass abilities in our youth.  Touching.  Or maybe it was just 4 minutes of weird crap happening to a Casio 4000 beat?  Read my senior dissertation to find out!
Here's another.  Mas creepy animation, por favor!  Er, Wikipedia notes that "In March of 2014, Young & Sick did a series of showcases at Austin's SXSW including a show exclusively for dogs at the Austin Pets Alive! shelter."  Mmmkay.  Hope the doggies enjoyed it. 
Anyway, neither of those two songs are on the most recent album (Young & Sick), which is much poppier R&B and less introspective indie stuff.  I'm not feeling it.

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