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Final Fantasy - Blue Imelda
the torture garden —
I really like this video (by director M Blash) but I don't think I understand it. It's nice in a disquieting way, if that makes sense. Also, in case you've forgotten, as I did: the CBC session with Cadence Weapon is kinda phenomenal. ------ Elsewhere: Mp3Hugger's series of releases under the Indiecater moniker has been impressive for a while now, but the digital release of Michael Knight's fine debut Youth Is Wasted On The Young is something I'm very happy to see. It's €3.50 very well spent. Earlimart did a ...
OMG, new Final Fantasy: 'Blue Imelda'
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"Blue Imelda" is the latest single from Final Fantasy's Spectrum, 14th Century EP. The video, directed by M. Blash, is frenzied and pretty and features some talented child actors (as in the previous Final Fantasy video for "The Butcher"). (via KevinKnows) RELATED: Owen Pallett's Movie Memory... ...
Video: Final Fantasy: "Blue Imelda"
Pitchfork Media - Today —
A sense of carefully crafted naturalism fills "Blue Imelda", from Final Fantasy's Beirut-assisted Spectrum, 14th Century EP. Final Fantasy's Owen Pallett has described the EP's tracks as "fake field recordings," so it stands to reason that this one would convey a sort of ordered casualness through its intricately arranged steel pans, bird noises, and choral vocals. The video, directed by M Blash, shares this feeling of cultivated wildness, alternating in a haphazard fashion between a bottle-toting long-haired girl, a short-haired girl who signals with her hands ...
New Final Fantasy Video - "Blue Imelda"
Stereogum —
At the end of the summer we premiered "The Butcher," from Spectrum, 14th Century, the first of Final Fantasy's two new EPs. (Later, it earned itself a joyfully bloody Jesi The Elder-directed video.) To recap: The five-track EP is a collaboration between Owen Pallett and Beirut. During the Flying Club Cup sessions, they recorded parts outdoors in Quebec, creating "fake fields recordings." Each track has a kind of woodsy or open-air backdrop: Check out chirping, steel-drum and Condon-lined "Blue Imelda." The M Blash video flits between two girls with different lengths hair but some sorta shared secret ...
The Weekly Sweep
Sweeping The Nation —
Alessi's Ark - The Horse [YouTube] Clinic - Tomorrow [YouTube] Dinosaur Pile-Up - My Rock'n'Roll [Myspace] Everything Everything - Suffragette Suffragette [Myspace] Final Fantasy - Blue Imelda [YouTube] Findo Gask - One Eight Zero [Myspace] Florence And The Machine - Dog Days Are Over [YouTube] Franz Ferdinand - Ulysses [Myspace] Grammatics - The Vague Archive [YouTube] Johnny Foreigner - Lea Room [Myspace] (And we're off again! This is going to be a double A-side with, slightly oddly, ...
These we also loved
Sweeping The Nation —
The best tracks of 2008, not counting top 50 album cuts Twenty best of the rest of the albums Because obviously fifty isn't enough Absentee - Boy, Did She Teach You Nothing [Myspace] From Victory Shorts Adam Donen and The Drought - Five Minute Zeitgeist [Myspace] From As Our Parents Slowly Turn To Clay (We're not sure what sort of release this got - there may still be copies of the combined CD and poetry book available from Myspace) Broken Social Scene Presents Brendan Canning - Hit The Wall [YouTube] From Something For All Of Us David ...
