EOIN BUTLER's guide to downloads, singles and free audiostreams
VARIOUS
Thank You Facebook *
"I'm tagging you/You're tagging me/Together we're making history." If this cringey video ode to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg were a plot hatched by the vengeful Winklevoss twins, rather than a sincere fan tribute, I'm not sure it could have undermined the credibility of his product to more devastating effect. (Then again, the guy made $100 billion last weekend and celebrated by getting married. Maybe he's not as smart as we thought.) youtube.com
HOT CHIP
Night and DayDomino ****
This brilliant video from Hot Chip’s forthcoming In Our Heads album was directed by comedian Peter Serafinowicz, whose own excellent Pirate Wogan mash-ups are essential YouTube listening in their own right.
RIVER GDANSK
I’m Gonna Drive **
With kickoff just over a fortnight away, the battle to find Ireland's most appalling Euro 2012 fan anthem still rages. I'm Gonna Drive (a cack-handed pub rock retelling of Gloria Gaynor's I Will Survive) is about an Irish football fan bent on travelling to Poland by Toyoto Hiace. Having made a convincing musical case for worst fan effort yet, however, River Gdansk go and queer their pitch by producing a video that's actually rather amusing. Close but no cigar, guys. youtube.com
I AM THE COSMOS
Take What You WantSynth Eastwood ****
Released with Ships’ You’re Gonna Feel It, this split 7-inch single from the Synth Eastwood collective is launched with a show at Dublin’s Sugar Club tonight. Well worth checking out.
MICK JAGGER & ARCADE FIRE
The Last Time (Live on SNL) ***
This musical number from last weekend’s Saturday Night Live finale contains many of the same ingredients that makes the show itself such compelling viewing: humour, novelty, moments of genius and incompetence and bizarre, unannounced cameos. (In this instance, Strokes’ bassist Nikolai Fraiture, and a barbershop quartet.) Roll on season 38!
