Feel Like Me - Press Release /
Renowned French duo Cassius have shared "Feel Like Me" featuring Cat Power off their upcoming Ibifornia LP, out August 26th via Interscope / Polydor.
"One day while we were working on Cat Power's last album 'Sun,' we played Chan our song 'I <3 U SO.' She looked at us and said that she would love singing on a track like this. We were overexcited and decided to tailor-made a song in the style of ours for our favorite living singer on earth, miss Chan Marshall. We made the instrumental in Paris, we knew very fast that we had an incredible chord progression and a great production. We went to New York and let Chan do her thing without even realizing what was really happening behind the glass window at Occiloscope Studio. We listened back and in a matter of a seconds we were all incapacitated by the water overflowing from our eyes. Since then it still has the same effect, Chan sang like a real woman, exactly how she prepared us on our long emails. Now we feel that this song is probably the most beautiful one we'll ever do. We accept it and think it's great like that. This moment at Occiloscope, working with Andre the Beastie Boys last engineer, remembering Adam Yauch, hearing Chan's voice from heaven, giving us everything she had... This moment we'll cherish until our last breath and even beyond. Hope you love it too. Peace." - The Cassius Men
All We Ever Knew /
The Head and the Heart have released the music video for the first single off their forthcoming album, Signs of Light, "All We Ever Knew". Directed by Marc Klasfeld, the video holds the same unmitigated peace of the song itself, time for reflection and time with friends seamlessly mixing together creating a video that's seemingly pulsing with pure life, happiness, and all-accepting love.
The beautifully written lyrics ache and lean against a sturdy beat and wonderfully freeing melody made for dancing in a song that should have, by now, won you over if you weren't already a fan. Honestly, the song's like sunshine and that near therapeutic feeling you get when hiking alone while the video's friends and safe places; it's a beautiful and addictive combination and we can't get enough.
Look for The Head and the Heart's Signs of Light to be released on September 9th on Warner Bros. Records and purchase a ticket, online, for one of their shows now to automatically get their standard album, your choice of digital or physical, when it's released.
Photo Credit: James Minchin
Signs Of Light Tracklisting
All We Ever Knew
City of Angels
Rhythm & Blues
False Alarm
Dreamer
Library Magic
Turn It Around
Colors
Take a Walk
Oh My Dear
I Don't Mind
Your Mother's Eyes
Signs of Light
Slow And Steady /
There's no way for us to give an unbiased review of Leagues' music. We love their sound, their productions are almost eerily intelligent, and their live show plays out more like a hangout with friends than a show for fans - they're just that good - so it's no surprise their recent singles have us excited for their forthcoming second full length, Alone Together, and "Slow And Steady" is no exception.
Think the smooth coolness of The Airborne Toxic Event but hopeful and seamlessly cinematic but still approachable and you've got Leagues latest single, "Slow And Steady".
It's raw - the good raw that speaks the truth without ego or exaggeration - and there's nothing quite like stopping what you're doing, laying back, and really listening to it; you can't help but smile at the brevity of the lyrics and those irresistibly astute production touches. Leagues makes minimal but complex sound so easy to pull off.
Check out the single, head to the sites, and look for Alone Together to be released September 9th on Dualtone.