Small is Beautiful

Size Doesn't Matter? All the Small Things? The Smaller the Better?

I'm sorry, there is surely no good tagline for a band called "Small". They are clearly pouring scorn on music journos throughout the world. They are, however, the most impressive band I saw on my musical travels this week, supporting Chairlift at London's Dublic Castle.

They sound like an intergalatic version of their Danish compatriots, "Mew", playing gorgeous shoegaze pop like their latest single, "Comic Girl"



Their album, "Teenage Cover" was released in Denmark in August this year. No word yet on when the rest of us can get our hands on it.

Small - Comic Girl
Small - Holy Cow

So Good it Couldn't Wait for New Music Monday: Chairlift

Brooklyn, NY's shoegaze poppers Chairlift are exposing a regret in myself tonight that I didn't know I had.  As I am ingulfing myself in 'Earwig Town' from their brand new debut LP, I remember painfully the night this past spring when they opened for MGMT at the Mod Club down the street.

The pain spurs from the fact that, although I was in attendance at that show, the convenience of living 5 minutes away got the best of me;  I skipped their set in favour of the company of a couple friends and the bong.  We were plenty high to appreciate what was the best MGMT performance I've seen to date, but missed out entirely on their personal friends as openers.  

My stupidity was unbeknownst to me for months, as only tonight have I gone to their myspace to find out that they're fucking amazing.   They call it live music for haunted houses.  I call it pop created for the stoned sad kid on a summer's day.

They're at the Horseshoe on October 25th with Yeasayer.  And, thusly, so am I.

From their debut LP Does You Inspire You:

Chairlift - Bruises

Chairlift - Earwig Town

And I'm all about their video for 'Planet Health', directed by Polachek herself: