Your Probiotic Culture is Too Wild for My Inner Anthropologist
There’s something about this studio rendition of “Big Mama” by the boys of Left Lane Cruiser that makes me wanna get jiggy wit it in my bedroom and off the walls.
It’s raw, it’s hilarious, and it’s highly dance-a-ble.
Oh yes sir, you betcha hats off, you’re listening to the blues, buddy.
Kid Cudi
The hip hop community has been experiencing a revival of sorts, now that the likes of T-Pain and Lil Wayne have gone past their Auto-Tune sell-by dates (mostly because AT has a disillusionary effect when it comes to live performances). Here at theplanktonsociety, we’re not surprised that the big H to the O-V, and protégé + Taylor-Swift-baddie Kanye are at the helm of a more progressive, hard-hitting back beat than the earlier 808s which had reigned for most of the late 1990s/ early 2000s. We were pleasantly delighted with Jay’s latest, to say the least.
On the other end of the spectrum, we’re really keeping an eye out for Kid Cudi, whose managed to impress us with his line of collaborative works and overall lyrical aptitude. Where Ne-Yo’s “Year of the Gentleman” album teased us with the possibility of this new undercurrent (of interstellar dance hooks and whatnot), and Santigold’s “L.E.S. Artistes” single flirted with the concept of a latent hip hop electronica avant-garde awaiting to wash ashore that sandy beach of Music Awesomeness, Kid Cudi has smashed our eardrums and blown us to bits with this live performance of “Pursuit Of Happiness” on Letterman’s show. It doesn’t hurt that Ratatat’s around to help as well.
And yes.
Letterman’s holding the psychedelic art-inspired album upside down at the end.
Devendra Banhart
Here at the plankton society, we’ve always felt an itchy imperative to introduce a basic “you really need to know this cool shit” quagmire of information to our reading guests. It’s the online equivalence of ambitious Orchard Road pamphleting, only without the handy rubbish bin ten steps away. We’re sorry about throwing shit at you, but hey, at least it’s good shit. So to kick off our sparkling new office of “The Things You Really Should Know”, we present the audiophonic-pornographical poetry of Devendra Banhart.
We first heard Banhart a few months ago, and were completely blown away by the splendid hark back to the Folk Revival Movement. His songs demystify us through lyrical fiction tales and wholesome basic melodies – a killer 2 hit combo that smacks the musical senses out from our sedimentary synapses. It’s a raw-ish embroidery between Eagle-Eye and dare we say, that other all American rounder – Amos Lee. Most of all, Banhart’s music just makes us feel good inside. If you’re just starting on the music, try the short but lovely “At the Hop”, before contemplating the anti-essentialist discourse of “Chinese Children” and the joyful conundrums of “I Feel Like A Child”. Yes goslings, we feel that you really should know, Devendra Banhart.
