Music: CFCF, Computer Perfection
Two new artists I’ve come to really dig recently are Montreal’s CFCF and Computer Perfection from Michigan.
CFCF, like xcuse.fi!ipa, first caught my ear from a Crystal Castles remix. He just put out an EP, Panesian Nights, on the Paper Bag Digital label (which by the looks of it I need to spend more time with). Panesian Nights is really good, but the track I have up, “You Hear Colors”, was part of a 7″ he put out last year. The instrumental track has a slow dream-pop vibe to it with ribbons of electo, a good beat, and a guitar that feels like a sorrowful mourner, giving bursts of pent up emotion at points.
Computer Perfection is a band I happened upon while looking through the line up for this years NYC Popfest. I want to describe them as a psychedelic jam band but I don’t want to make them sound like Phish. They are very much pop, though you can clearly hear that they are not some throw away twee band. I love a song that really builds, has many ups and downs, and draws out the end (Life Without Buildings “Newtown” comes to mind), and their song “Sweetie Pie” does this very well (this track, along with a few others, are available for free on the bands website.) Computer Perfection is playing Saturday, May 16th at The Bell House in NYC along with Eux Autres, The Secret History, Pants Yell!, and The Radio Dept (which promises to be a truly amazing night.)
CFCF – You Hear Colors
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Computer Perfection – The Fool is Hurt
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