[NEW MUSIC]: LUSINE'S 'TWILIGHT' SINGLE

February 9, 2010

At the heart of Lusine’s 2009 full-length A Certain Distance lies the song ‘Twilight’, a placid, vocal-led downtempo lullabye. If “Two Dots”, A Certain Distance’s luminous first single, was the album’s knockout blow, “Twilight” is its victory lap—similar in scope and instrumentation but calmer in execution, its gently chugging drum programming and billowing puffs of Rhodes providing a weightless base for Vilja Larjosto’s voice, clear and knowing as ever.

Download ‘Twilight’ at The Ghostly Store.

[VIDEO]: SYNTAKS' 'BLUE SUNSHINE'

February 4, 2010

The hypnotic video for Syntaks ’ “Blue Sunshine”—a gorgeously lumbering standout from the Danish duo’s debut, Ylajali—is an all-to-appropriate analog to the pair’s approach to music-making: a wash of color, fleeting glimpses of half-remembered imagery both heavenly and apocalyptic, and vertiginous shifts in scale superimposed over its creators’ faces. Syntaks’ Jakob Skott directed the clip, and his clear love of its subject matter (his musical collaborator and romantic partner, Anna Cecilia) is apparent throughout.