The new Los Campesinos! album, Romance is Boring, is the one I've had a hard time turning odd repeat. Their dancey, punk spirited, indie rock sound remains intact as they hit new levels of depth and songwriting I felt was less apparent in their previous releases.
A strange surprise has been Ok Go's Of Blue the Colour and the Sky. Another danceable indie group that was previously just catchy, rather than good. They've changed their sound up a good bit, and created an album that's still catchy but relies less on its guitar hooks and more on its compelling vocal harmonizing and funk-influenced sound.
As far as films go, nothing that looks very good has graced the screens of New Orleans these past few weeks. And I haven't been watching many films out home due to a long running tv venture of mine finally coming to an end. I did have time to watch a fantastic new short film over at The Auteurs the other day. I don't know how some people have still not joined this website. It's free. They show free films periodically from great directors. Last year they premiered Austrian Oscar nominee Revanche weeks before its theatrical release.
I'd never seen anything by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, but I know I'm supposed to. The Auteurs premiered his new short film A Letter to Uncle Boonmee last week for free. It's still up there, but now costs 2 bucks. Boonmee is a meditative and beautiful love letter to northeast Thailand, and is mostly a collection of images from an abandoned rural village. These are held together by a wistful narration by a filmmaker trying to find the perfect location to shoot his film about his late uncle Boonmee that also doubles as a letter currently in progress. The director repeats sections of the narration over and over again, attempting to find the perfect words to express his complex feelings to his dead relative.
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