I’ve been trying for the past hour to get these to download. My internet connection is really horrible.
The opposite of horrible: the new Oliver North Boy Choir single, Weekender, is at last out! Also available is the b-side (if it can properly be called that), Lovesong. The two sound very different from each other, but both can be described in quite positive terms. Weekender is somewhat guitar-driven (the first time I heard it, I thought of early Raveonettes), unlike other ONBC songs. It’s a bit different, but not so different that you won’t recognize the things you like about the band.
Weekender is really neat, and a step in a different direction that works well, but I’ll admit it -- I’ve always been one of those people who often winds up liking B-sides better than singles, and this case I do. Maybe I just hear what I want to hear, but Lovesong, in my opinion, sounds much more reminiscent of early ONBC -- think Cobra, or Something New… Ethereal pop with a bit of a shoegazey influence toward the end. I like it very, very much. It’s the right kind of love song -- one for the broken-hearted. I guess nearly all (good) love songs are somewhat broken-hearted, but this one seems even more so. It’s perhaps what happens when you’re still in love, but don’t want to be, kind of; the lie that you need to tell yourself, even though you know it’s not true. Again, maybe I just hear what I want to hear -- but maybe not. I guess you’ll have to listen to it to know what I mean.
Anyway. In addition to the main two, ONBC has also released a third bonus track, New Folder, and a new remix, by Danish electro-ist Limboasyoulikeit, of an old ONBC song (Cobra, actually). These last two are what I’ve been trying to download -- and you can download them as well. (Weekender and Lovesong are through iTunes.)
If your internet is better than mine, all six songs -- the aforementioned, as well as two previously released affiliated tracks, Bonnie and Clyde’s Serbia’s on Fire remix and Bakers at Dawn’s Something New cover -- can be streamed in full at the special little Weekender web page. This is also where you should go to download the latter four -- or to watch the Weekender video. A few words about that: it’s black and white, and features two men playing chess and somehow managing to lip-sync the song, despite having been filmed in fast motion. And there’s a cameo from a Rationell cutlery tray -- the medium-sized one -- from IKEA. (Isn’t it sad how well I know these things?)
I guess I should also talk about the song I’m putting up to download here -- New Folder. It’s a spacey pop song just like (maybe even more so than) the rest. But toward the middle, something about it makes me think of math. Perhaps it’s very measured or even or something. Perhaps I just wanted to think of math. Whatever the case, I like it. It’s got a lot of different instruments and a nice sonic buildup. Last night, when I initially wrote this, toward the end I thought it sounded kind of like a funnel looks -- you know, the kind water makes when going down a drain. That was probably more the influence of really needing to go to sleep -- but I still can't think of any better way to describe the song. Perhaps you'd just better listen to it, too.
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