Category: Music To Bone To

Cosmic Kids Remix of Poolside’s “Do You Believe”

Poolside’s “Do You Believe?” is already a fun, disco-inspired track. But Cosmic Kids’ remix turns it into an indie nu-disco track that you can fuck someone in a pool to.

Happy Friday!

Chromatics Cover Joy Division / New Order’s “Ceremony”

Chromatics are probably best known for their sultry electropop cover of Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill.”

Now they’ve taken their electro-sensuality to remake Joy Division‘s last / New Order‘s first single “Ceremony.”

P.S. Both Chromatics tracks are definitely songs to bone to.

CHVRCHES Semi-Week Continues: Ultraista Remix

So let’s continue to make this a CHVRCHES Semi-Week!

Today, the Guardian premiered the CHVRCHES remix of “Gold Dayzz” by Ultraista. (Note: I’ve got an image of the SoundCloud player linking to the Guardian article for now because it doesn’t offer a direct link to the song yet.)

Not gonna lie – definitely a Song to Bone to also!

CHVRCHES took a trip-hop-influenced, bass-filled, semi-jazzy original Gold Dayzz track, sped it up and put their treble-beats touch on it – making it sound somewhat like a dreamy Labyrinth Ear track or anything by Lilofee.

Bye Bye “Friday I’m in Love Songs” – “Turning Into Stone” by Phantogram

I think that I’m over the “Friday I’m in Love” weekly song theme. If I hear a song again after not hearing it for a long time and really feel as if I should share the “story” behind it and what it means to me in terms of dating/romance/love/etc., I will.

However, I am shifting BoxSpeaker Fridays to alternating “Friday, I Will Fuck” and “Fashion Show Friday” song features – I mean, it works, right? Songs that I would have sex to are also songs that just happen to really be great for runway events.

To start off this alternating series, I’d like to feature “Turning into Stone” by Phantogram as a Friday, I Will Fuck song.

The first eleven seconds of the song make you think that it isn’t something you would want to have sex to due to how high-pitched and abrasive it is – like an out-of-tune marching band. But once the twelve-second mark hits, the heavy bass beat comes in alerting you to the possibility of sensuality in the song.

At the 25-second mark, Phantogram brings in their signature eerie synths. Then, 43-seconds, Josh Carter come in almost monotonously haunting the listener about loneliness and dying.

At the 1:15 mark, Sarah Barthel‘s vocals come in for the signature Phantogram harmonies as the song sounds airy and relaxing. Then, you end up back in the rough reality of the 1:47 mark when the quick 8-bit style synths begin to layer upon each other. Building up and building up just in time for Carter’s tortured, distorted vocals to come back in.

And everything just sounds like and and feels like an aural explosion.

“High for This” by The Weeknd (Ellie Goulding cover)

This is a very special post. Why?

Because it is the return of BoxSpeaker Weekly Theme Days AND also a “Music to Bone to” recommendation from my friend Stephanie! I simultaneously deem this a “Music to Bone to” and Wednesday Hump Day song!

It is Ellie Goulding and Xaphoon Jones cover of The Weeknd’s “High for This.”

Click the link above to hear it on the Neon Gold Records blog. I’ll add in an embedded player later when SoundCloud stops acting up.

This cover is so sensual. Xaphoon Jones’s extensive use of an echo effect throughout the song gives the music a dreamy, sensual and somewhat heavy feel – much like Mr. Little Jeans’s “The Suburbs” cover. I would definitely have sex to this song. Slow, sensual sex. Like a lesbian drug dream – to take a term from Sassy Gay Friend.

Also, I can’t help but think “Ellie, you ARE right when you say ‘Even though you don’t roll, trust me boy, you wanna be high for this.’ heh heh heh”

Long story short, Stephanie, awesome suggestion. Everyone else, go have sex to this RIGHT NOW!

Charli XCX’s “Nuclear Seasons”

I found out about Charli XCX completely by accident because of a mistake made by the Knocks/Popshop Radio.

I was listening to the Popshop Radio 12 mix by The Knocks and thought “Man, this really sounds like Feist if she went all electro” at the end. I went over to the Popshop site to see the track listing on the mix and at the very end, I saw “Nuclear Seasons” by Charli XCX.

Googled Charli XCX and found out her site offers that exact song as a free download. “SCORE!” I exclaimed in my head (because I already exclaim too many things out loud in front of other people – not that it mattered at that moment because I was alone at the time). Anyway, I plug in my info and download the song. Click the play triangle on iTunes and am surprised to realize it sounds nothing at all like the Feist-sound-a-like I heard earlier. In fact, Charli XCX sounds like Marina and the Diamonds but with more 80s-inspired, Madonna twinkly synths and boom-boom-ahhhhhs. I can’t remember exactly which 80s band/singer’s darker notes this reminds me of, but I’ll post that in when I do remember.

Maybe I was going about it the wrong way? the darker synths weren’t a female 80s pop star’s style but more Depeche Mode’s “Enjoy the Silence”? DEFINITELY! It feels/sounds right.

ANYWAY…

Is this a NEW new wave? Neo-new wave? neu new wave? Awwwww… Just looked it up: I can’t patent “neu wave” or “Neu new wave” because 1) there’s a company called Neu Wave. I think it’s for acne medication, 2) there’s a band called “Neu!” (The exclamation is actually in their name. I don’t know if I’m excited about them just yet. I’ll have to listen to them first.), and 3) I’m pretty sure I’ve heard people talk about “new new wave” before or so. Damn

Newtro? as in New+retro? Neutro? Neutron. hahahaha

Look, if Hipster Runoff can coin “Chillwave,” why can’t I coin some sort of term for this style? Watch, Hipster Runoff probably already has.

ANYWAY…….

I haven’t listened to any other Charli XCX songs yet, but I’m excited to because I really like her sound – as convolutedly as I’ve described it.

Happy listening!

P.S. This also technically gets filed as “Music to Bone to” because I would TOTALLY have sex to this song. So sensual with its 80s retro stylings.

“The Suburbs (Arcade Fire cover)” by Mr. Little Jeans

You already all know about my unconditional love for Mr. Little Jeans.

And what better song to add as another reason for that love than an Arcade Fire cover?

On another note, this video (unofficial and fan-made, I’m assuming) is pretty awesome because Alessandra Ambrosia’s sensual nature is a perfect embodiment of Mr. Little Jeans’s music. (Although I do think this video could have done with a lot less monster truck action.)

Check out more of Mr. Little Jeans’s music.