What do you look for an a band's third major album? I'm going to go with refinement. All bands have those first random little records that you discover after the fact. It's typically their first label album that piques our interest. It's their second big album that hopefully takes their style, expands it and melts our faces. Now it's the third that we expect a certain level of cleanliness, polish and yes, refinement.
The Dodos' latest major album No Color is the perfect third installment. It takes the band's energetic, experimental sound and applies a degree of tightness that still manages to capture their driving, frenetic sound. The real power and pleasure of the the album comes in the form of grace notes supplied by none other than Ms. Neko Case. There's wisdom and pose there that's a perfect juxtaposition to Meric Long's pseudo naivety.
The track that proves this theory the most is without a doubt Don't Try and Hide It. This song, like many others on the album, gets stuck in your head in a good way. You enjoy waking up in the morning with this song still ringing in your ears. Bottom line: Go try it, don't fight it.
The Italian fashion house Trussardi gave the at times awkward-looking BMW 5-Series Gran Turismo a much-needed make-over for their 100th year anniversary. Complete with designer luggage, custom leather driving gloves and tad-too-serious driver, this Hot Chocolate grand tourer is actually looking like quite the canyon carver. See additional pics here.
Last year, I did a little blog project throughout the year that I called called Color Scheming. The concept was to match cool objects of desire with MINI Cooper factory colors. It was way fun to put together the compositions and yesterday my co-worker g.lock turned me on to this fantastic example of color scheming in practice. It comes to us from high-end golf glove manufacturer G/FORE. Check out some of their colorful collections. Feel free to click the pics to enlarge.
Digging the trailer for the new Disney animated series TRON: Uprising starring voice talents of Elijah Wood, Mandy Moore and none other than Paul Rubens! Looks like a great combo CGI and some traditional character animation.
The Dodos' latest major album No Color is the perfect third installment. It takes the band's energetic, experimental sound and applies a degree of tightness that still manages to capture their driving, frenetic sound. The real power and pleasure of the the album comes in the form of grace notes supplied by none other than Ms. Neko Case. There's wisdom and pose there that's a perfect juxtaposition to Meric Long's pseudo naivety.
The track that proves this theory the most is without a doubt Don't Try and Hide It. This song, like many others on the album, gets stuck in your head in a good way. You enjoy waking up in the morning with this song still ringing in your ears. Bottom line: Go try it, don't fight it.
