All of the above
Danger Mouse and Italian composer Daniele Luppi have joined forces for something quite special.
This is Two Against One from their Rome album, directed by Chris Milk (formerly of Google, and of The Wilderness Downtown fame).
The album features vocals from Jack White and Norah Jones.
Rome – Two Against One from Chris Milk on Vimeo.
Here are two excerpts from the SPIN article that really struck me – read it in full.
If Arcade Fire’s ragtag debut, Funeral, found its ecstatic force by celebrating the elusive comforts of community (hence four songs with the word neighborhood in the title), and 2007′s aggrieved, galvanizing Neon Bible powered forth in opposition to the hollow sparkle of church, state, and celebrity, then the harder, denser The Suburbs burns on behalf of the belief that modern culture is missing its heart — and to give up the search is to send one’s soul to oblivion.
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Desperate to elude its own corrosive dread, [The Suburbs] keeps moving, asking, looking, and making the promise that hope isn’t just another spiritual cul-de-sac. After all, you never know who might be coming in the next car.
Chosen specially by his fat little paw.
These are the two that set him running in from my garden to smoosh his little face next to my laptop and lie down.
I’m going to be single for a really long time, aren’t I?
Thom Yorke’s Atoms for Peace,
and Arcade Fire’s ye olde Neighbourhood #1 (Tunnels)
Or, at least, near him.
Warlords, the lot of them.
…is, in all sincerity, one of the best things I’ve ever seen the internet do.
It involves you (the viewer/listener) writing a letter to your younger self, which is then delivered to your childhood home, with Google Maps in the mix.
So, so clever and transcendent – and a beautiful song to boot.
Visit the site and be wowed. (ideally in HTML5)
