So who ARE that insufferable indie couple in the new Hyundai TV ads?

lol

I mean, how are you going to record and film a video for a jaunty song where you are begging your soon-to-be-ex to procreate with you, and then she has a bari clarinet solo

baritone clarinet is the most mournful of the reed instruments IMO

Not since Richard and Linda Thompson...

maybe he will be happier with a woman who is not green.

I guess we are seeing natural selection remove this trait from the gene pool in real time though, that's kind of cool

this trait = the need to put song to youtube?

doesn't this guy still want have baby

xp: narrower than I was thinking but I can go with that

This is what happens when parents praise everything their kids do and worry whether their self-esteem is high enough. This guy has written, recorded, and uploaded a half-arsed, cringey, oversharing, bland, amateurish song a day for 1435 days. What happened to always leaving them wanting more? What happened to learning how to play your damn bass clarinet? It's like something a teenage kid would play to themselves on their first guitar in their room in a sulk and then hope nobody overheard.

just having been in whatever middling indie rock bands

i think the worst thing about this "youtube band" phenomenon is that i think it's really important for ppl to perform live shows before they record anything because it's really important to look into that crowd's bored eyes and watch them shuffle off to go smoke and get beers and understand how...bad...your...songs...are

hahaha

^^

i'm on a plane and jetlagged so help me out....pomplamoose is splitting up or that couple with the clarinet?

couple with the clarinet

unfortunately pomplamoose will be playing toy instruments together with the palsy in an old-age home someday

that gig is next sunday I think

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAJ_NM43WEc

did they do the awful prius song, y/n

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTEQZMxWGxY

aw

that's a quite affecting and non-hatable song imo

Seems like the stuff being put out under the "Nataly Dawn" name is way, way better than Pomplemousse? I mean it's not exactly my bag, but the songwriting and production are v good. Like the song above (Dance) -- great bass and drum parts, really nice sound, cool chord progression, I think the only thing I don't really like about it is her indie cliche voice.

Dropping the goofiness was a good idea though.

Haven't watched the whole thing yet, but 1:25 into it she still hasn't looked at the camera, which is a vast improvement in and of itself.

however this is fucking terrifying:

http://natalydawnpreorder.warnerreprise.com/

Singer/songwriter Nataly Dawn, one half of the duo Pomplamoose, releases her solo album How I Knew Her on Nonesuch Records on February 12. Even with two weeks to go before then, the critical praise has begun pouring in from the UK, including BBC Music, and earning four star reviews from Mojo, the Daily Telegraph, and Independent on Sunday.

Nataly Dawn "delivers a seductive and singular solo album," says BBC Music of How I Knew Her. "Overall it’s the sound of a woman brimming with ideas as she seizes her moment," writes BBC reviewer John Aizlewood. "She nods to Mary Margaret O’Hara’s way with oscillation, Kate Havnevik’s knack for painting an enigmatic picture and Regina Spektor’s yen for a winning melody."

Aizlewood recommends repeated listens, recognizing it as an album "to slow-drip its way to adoration. Dawn has the intelligence to sway the cognoscenti, the wide-eyed charm to seduce the masses, and an other-worldliness that ensures that, for all those she embraces, nobody sounds quite like her."

Read the complete review at bbc.co.uk.

The Independent on Sunday and the Daily Telegraph give the album four stars, with the latter calling it "delightful." The Telegraph concludes: "Delicate and playful, Dawn balances childlike wonder with sly wit and subtle emotion, switching from deadpan folky narratives to archaic country rocking with an ease reminiscent of such Americana greats as Natalie Merchant and Kate McGarrigle."

Mojo gives the album four stars as well. Dawn's "echoey swamp sound," writes Mojo's Phil Sutcliffe, "emcompassing bottle neck guitars and cellos recalls the friendly/eerie seductions of Bobbie Gentry or Emmylou Harris’ Wrecking Ball." To read the complete review, pick up the latest issue of Mojo, on newsstands now.

oh good

http://steveffisher.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/screen-shot-2012-09-01-at-15-57-05.png

^shop

do tell, matt p

no joke if you cross your eyes, its 3D

haha, I was going to ask if it was an old fashioned stereogram or something. when I cross my eyes though I just see 3 of her and the one in the middle is still flat.

Nope, just as bad as Pomplemose.

http://i.imgur.com/fH0aVu3.jpg

lol

snorg girl looks crazy

Isn't that the clipart face that appears whenever a webpage goes away and somebody else takes over the domain?

yeah, i just like the idea of nataly snorglepousse

yes: http://www.facebook.com/Ist2746781femalestudentjpg

Lol. Is she the one who has the guess papers?

what you want, when you want it

She Has One Friend!

looool gr8080

Did someone make a recent post involving something like "Pomplamousse teaming up with some other band to create the Voltron of horrible music"? I thought I read a post like that in the last 12 hours, but maybe it was just an ilx dream.

I feel like it would be Amanda Palmer if so. Don't know if I heard that somewhere or it just makes sense.

might be ben folds five?

A guy goes into the woods hunting for a bear. When he is deep in the woods he feels a tap on his shoulder. He turns to see an enormous grizzly towering above him. Before he can fire, the beast rips the rifle out of his hands and proceeds to sodomize him.

Mortified, he retreats to his cabin, arms himself with a double-barreled shotgun, and races back into the woods to find and kill his furry assailant. But once again, the bear sneaks up behind him, pulls the weapon from his hands and has his lusty way with him.

Undeterred, the guy equips himself with a machine gun and treks back into the woods where he is again ambushed, disarmed and defiled by the bear.

Now, apoplectic with moral outrage, he flies to a third world country where he buys a heat-seeking, shoulder-launched, nuclear-tipped rocket from an international arms dealer.
Convinced he finally has the upper hand, he returns to the woods, tracks the bear to his lair and patiently waits to vaporize him. And yes, again, the bear surprises, disarms and sexually assaults him.

But this time, before the guy can run off to acquire more lethal armaments, the bear enfolds him in his massive arms and says, "You don't really come out here to hunt, do ya?"

tv critic I follow on twitter saw ben folds last week and was like "opener nataly dawn was great too!" and I thought uh oh.....it begins.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/dd38979726a5acc5ace939200b081b14/tumblr_mhcnd7SKzF1qzyur6o1_500.png
voltron