Hit The Waves (Labrador) is the new album from the Mary Onettes. It’s the long-awaited third full-length from the Gothenburg, Sweden, quartet, and it largely abandons the soaring pop that was the band’s hallmark on its 2007 self-titled debut and 2009’s Islands. Those albums earned the quartet comparisons to the Cure and Echo & The Bunnymen, although polished with a modern synth-pop sheen. Hit The Waves draws likewise from the ’80s, but instead of tuneful post-punk, it deliberately echoes some less trendy sources. The Mary Onettes—brothers Philip and Henrik Ekström, Petter Agurén and Simon Fransson—will be guest editing magnet magazine.co all week. Read our brand new feature on them.
Henrik Ekström: Stop Making Sense is a concert movie featuring Talking Heads live onstage. It starts with David Byrne standing alone with a guitar and a tape recorder and plays a fantastic version of “Psycho Killer.” After that it only gets better and better. With each successive song, Byrne is cumulatively joined onstage by each member of the band and ends in a crescendo and becomes one of the best rock movies ever made.
Video after the jump.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pCZ5E5tn4I
