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Weekly mp3 #90: Taken By Trees - My Boys

Farewell 2009. Here's something 2009-enough to close out on, and summery enough for the time of year here - nice cover of Animal Collective's 'My Girls', with one of the guys from Studio producing it and the recordings done in Pakistan. Better Propaganda gives up the goods.

Handclaps, tuned percussion and a harmonium / pump organ. Chipper guitar melodies and plucked bass sounds that makes me think of Cuban music. The singer sings in a hazy way that makes me think of a euro version of Mazzy Star's Hope Sandoval. Street sounds of Pakistan can be heard at the end, but sadly it cuts off cos that flows into the next track on the album. Oh well.

The Swedish singer behind Taken By Trees is someone I'd only heard doing the Bardot-ish deadpan on Peter Bjorn & John's 'Young Folks'. Turns out she's done three albums under this name, as well as fronting a band called The Concretes outside that. Ah well.

Labels: music, weekly mp3

Posted at 6:00 PM