- 04
- Mar
We've seen magic walls in videos before -- courtesy of Brooklyn's Parts & Labor -- however the self-animating stop-motioned magic of this white room comes via Swedish indie pop duo the LK. "Stop Being Perfect" pits the pair in a blank space and captures them on film that flips to negative, while patterns and pictures project themselves in tidy quadrants. It's a very smoothed and melodic tune, sort of reminds us of Erlend Øye's Whitest Boy Alive project, just more buoyant, with more forward momentum. The electronic accents, the background whirls and whirrrs, and the shuffling, brushed drums set a sweet scene for the lyrics of "frozen cloud"s and "sticky black tongues." Nice tune for a wispy wintry night.