Phantogram -- "Don't Move" (MP3)

SOUND IT OUT #5.

Things are not what they seem here. Phantogram sounds like a sexy, cosmopolitan collective, not a couple of childhood friends recording music in a barn outside tiny Saratoga Springs, New York. The song is called “Don’t Move”, but it compels you to get up and shake ass right from the start. You may need to hear it a couple of times before you're sucked in; the song has a sneaky introspective overtone that reinforces itself with multiple listens. I dare you to not love it after three plays.

Phantogram’s new mini-album came out this week. It’s called Nightlife and is lusher and more personal than their 2009 debut Eyelid Movies. The band has been on the road for over a year and the music conveys the blur of sex and exhaustion and wee-hour loneliness that one imagines dominated their (night)life while playing club after club for months on end.

Download an MP3 of Phantogram's "Don't Move"

Amy worked in the record business at Enigma, Elektra, Virgin and Sub Pop before she got sucked into the technology vortex. She co-founded the Backwards Beekeepers, a chemical-free urban beekeeping collective in Los Angeles. She runs digital marketing for the Los Angeles Philharmonic and The Hollywood Bowl.

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jdk998

KCRW has spun this earworm a few times. Addictive.
http://twitter.com/jayrtfm Jay Kusnetz

FYI, phantograms are distorted stereoscopic 3D images, which when viewed at an angle appear to be coming off the surface. A good site with examples you can print out for home use is http://3ddigitalphoto.com/. The effect works well with movies, or even on lenticular displays like a Nintendo 3D or Fuji W3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrcwnMjApLk
John Neidhart

I love Boing Boing… but, wow. Worst music recommends ever…
- CharredBarn
  
  Thank goodness Mr. Neidhart has set the record straight again! One question never leaves our lips: What would Neidhart think?
http://twitter.com/synthfiend synthfiend

This band did a cool session at the Moog Sound Lab – pics and video are here:
http://www.moogmusic.com/sight-and-sound/sound_lab/phantogram
Ryan_Walker

Just heard this track a few days ago and was completely caught-off guard by my reaction. Not my typical cup o’ tea but I was almost instantly seduced.
http://twitter.com/Joush13 Joshua Green

It seems like the band has grown up really fast. i liked mouthful of diamonds but everything else on the E.P. fell short from that song. they took a different turn this time and made a really sweet song again. awesome sauce all day sir’s.
http://twitter.com/snarf Snarf

I liked it the first time I listened. I also liked it the third time. Thanks for the tip.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=559733997 Stephen Olsen

I fruking ruv dis song.
http://mordicai.livejournal.com Mordicai

Reminds me a bit of Pogo, the fellow that loops the Disney clips together into layered tunes?
dean jordan

I dunno, bOING and me, get along, maybe Mr. Needheart needs him some ear buds? just sayin’
MichaelDalin

i like this
Wildhack

tiny Saratoga Springs, New York?
- antler
  
  26,000 people is pretty small. Certainly not a teeming metropolis.
robuluz

A short thread that passed its expiry days ago, but this track and mouthful of diamonds have really got hold of me. I think the other work on their releases sounds more like sketches working toward the standard of these two, but I love the path they are taking. I really hope they get some serious budget and are allowed to bloom.
Emir Kaymakoglu

The sound is moving. Hip hip hooray!