Tag: CHVRCHES
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SXSW 2016 Gallery
8 Artists You Need to Follow on Instagram
As Pitchfork recently pointed out, Instagram is a fascinating social platform because it offers streamlined, intimate snapshots into a person’s life – which can get especially juicy when the user is a famous musician. But not all gram games are created equal. Here are eight artists you should maybe, probably, definitely be following on the ‘Gram.
8. CHVRCHES (@CHVRCHES)
Coachella 2014. Photo by @rachaeltension.
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Most of their pictures are live shots copped from their professional photog, but if you’re a fan of live music pics, you’ll adore their posts.
7. Sylvan Esso (@sylvanesso)
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Sylvan Esso are known for their funky fashion choices, and there’s no better place to broadcast their outfits than Instagram.
6. Viet Cong (@vietcongband)
Sweet boat, Lyon. #weplayedabarge #gnarbounty
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This is a band that prefers industrial and landscape shots over selfies, and knows how to do it well.
5. Nightmare Air (@Nightmareair)
These guys are great at offering up humorous and epic snapshots of their busy touring life, so it’s ALMOST like being on tour with them…almost.
4. Kishi Bashi (@kishi_bashi)
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Kishi Bashi is like the quiet but brilliant friend you have – his posts are friendly but also smart.
3. HOLYCHILD (@holychild)
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These guys are absolute masters of perspective and use of natural lines – their grams are immensely aesthetically pleasing.
2. Bright Light Social Hour (@tblsh)
No pants til Brooklyn #hifashion #soldout
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These absurd Austinian jokesters like to post funny pictures, but are also masters of making bright colors brighter.
1. St. Vincent (@st_vincent)
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Sure, we’re not the first pub to remark upon her Gram game, but her dry wit and eye for finding unusual in the mundane make her account a must-follow.
CHVRCHES cover Justin Timberlake’s “Cry Me A River”
CHVRCHES’ 2013 debut The Bones of What You Believe was jam-packed with pop hooks, so it was only a matter of time until they covered a JT song. While the original is a groovy R&B number that foreshadowed Timberlake’s later back-to-basics work like The 20/20 Experience, it still had one leg in the sampled production of the 90s. CHVRCHES took the next logical step by infusing some slinky, space-y synths.
The result is a highly danceable piece of electropop that could easily be featured in Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century. Even if the melody is a little more robotic, singer Lauren Mayberry uses her plaintive high end to keep the vibe perfectly human. Yet the sparse arrangement is significantly more hair-raising, and makes CHVRCHES sound a bit more thirsty for revenge. Given that Timberlake first wrote “Cry Me A River” as a diss track to former flame Britney Spears — and we all saw how her life turned out — potential CHVRCHES belles and beaus should watch their backs.
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