Soundtracks: Midnight Movies Lion the Girl

You know how sometimes you get so stupid-lovey over someone who's just wrong, so you wrap yourself up in dreamy music that makes you feel like your heartbreak's this glamorous event of epic and cinematic proportions? That's what I did with Midnight Movies' first record, and now I kind of never want to hear it again. It seems like it's taken 8 million years for their follow-up to come out, but tomorrow's it's finally here and my Midnight Movies void has been gorgeously filled. Lion the Girl's got more of the same arthouse-horror-movie spookiness found on the L.A. band's 2004 debut, but this time around it's mixed up with stuff like the straight-up pop of "Hide Away" (maybe the only Midnight Movies song you can't not dance to) and the girl-group sway of "Ribbons." (MP3s of two other yummy tracks, "Coral Den" and "Patient Eye," are available at I Rock Cleveland.)

By the way, frontgirl Gena Olivier is one of our biggest rock crushes, with her Nico voice and her serene, not-of-this-realm brand of foxiness. I used to go all googly-eyed watching her sing and play drums at their shows, though apparently the band's got a new drummer (and bassist) for this album. But the swirly/shoegazy guitar noise is still coming from Larry Schemel, who I endlessly worship just for being the brother of Hole's Patty Schemel (aka one of the greatest drummers in the world ever).

Also out this week: New High & Ord by L.A.'s Silver Daggers, best described here as "hi-fi song fuckery that infects the brain like simian fever hopping from cage to cage." And at the record release party last night The Man Who Fell to Earth was onscreen during their set, and David Bowie's skinny creepy redheadedness only made my head explode all the more. Download the song "Joy" over at the page I just linked to.

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