Monday , November 16, 2009
Soundtracks: Blonde Redhead, 23
We've made no secret of our love for Blonde Redhead -- and our admiration of frontwoman Kazu Makino's ineffable style. Their new record 23 comes out domani on 4AD and it's this gorgeous thing, full of shoegazer swirls of songs that make me remember bands like the Pale Saints in the best of ways. (I can still listen to the Saints' "Kinky Love" single on repeat with no problem.) Sometimes I miss Blonde Redhead's old jagged, shard-of-noise-lodging-itself-into-your-brain sound, but they've steadily progressed to a warmer, more romantic thing that's equally seductive and pretty much perfect "cold spring" music. Catch the Melodie McDaniel-directed video below:
What we heart most, style-wise, is how lovely Kazu looks, with the little cutouts at the shoulder on her backless white dress and her black stockings. The clothes, and the shoegazer-type sound, makes me think obliquely of those shirts with the shoulder cutout from Merry-Go-Round in the early 90s, not to mention spring of 1995 when girls ran around college wearing plaid kilts and thick black thigh-high stockings -- but Kazu here looks thoroughly elegant instead of slightly slutty and hookerish.
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