Alyson Camus

Lyrics apart, the music of ‘Port of Morrow’ sounds extremely familiar, it is as fresh and charming as The Shins’ music has always been, there is brilliance, guitars layered with keyboards, wordless harmonies, inventive jumpy noises, earworms and big choruses, yes all this, with a twist.

For them, some sort of music is always on, on their computers, phones or… from a noise in the street, they will listen to anything as long as it has some sort of rhythm,… and they want to listen to it all the time. Music is like oxygen around them, it is vital and part of their surrounding, but it is also regarded as some background element,

The song is an exhilarating, super-upbeat, 80s-influenced tune off their debut self-titled album, and knowing how energetic and especially funny they are on stage, they could not have found a more comical way to express their sibling attachment.

Stereogum has one minute preview of ‘Horn Of Plenty’, the orchestral track composed by Win and Régine, which is supposed to be the ‘national anthem of the fascist Capitol’, as Win explained.

‘Slowly to the Shadows’ is precisely a little on the creepy-spooky side, slowly expanding its dark sound for 4 minutes and half with Carpenter’s baritone vocals backed up by J. Explosive’s sexy drumbeats.

It should be simply amazing, a fusion between the cold from Sweden and the heat from the Sahara-Malian desert, although José González’s family is actually from Argentina and his music has always cultivated a unique hybrid form of hypnotic krautrock and Afrobeat

I saw Ceremony a few weeks ago, they were a real fury on stage, and when I re-imagine the energy of this song played live, I would have never come up with this sort of story for it

I never take any music with me when I run marathons, it is simply too long and I want to avoid another friction around the ears, but I have enough music memorized to entertain myself… I was playing in my head the songs I have played on my iPod lately, from the Bad Brains, to Ceremony, Fucked up, Iggy and the Stooges.

‘Why has it taken me this long to make it to South By Southwest?’ He asked at the beginning of his show,… err may be because you have been kind of invisible for the longest time?

Seeing them live is a celebration of life, which can turn a little too mushy at times (yeah this is a love feast!), but it sure will make you happy if you still can feel your feet after all that jumping and bouncing.

Bethany Consentino’s bright vocals with lots of stretched syllables and repetitive lyrics,… how many times does she say ‘you don’t know why I cry’ anyway?

The music is your expected club music, with lots of dance-floor-disco rhythms, some cheerleader-lines in the mix and techno-beats turning madly hypnotic, while you are watching disturbing and bloody night club scenes

laughing in front of a funny video, drinking a glass of alcohol (yes!), or doing any other relaxing activity have demonstrated the important benefit to ‘not paying attention’, and not being focused in the creativity process