One half of The Knife does a solo project. I thought The Knife was ok, but Fever Ray is minus all the sugary synthpop. There is only Karin, her insanity, heavy ambient bass, and the finest prose in all of human history:

i’m very good with plants
when my friends are away
they let me keep the soil moist
on the seventh day i rest
for a minute or two
then back on my feet and call for you

Also consider:
accompany me
by the kitchen sink
we talk about love
we talk about dishwater tablets
and we dream about heaven

One YouTube comment describes it as “morose shit”. I like morose shit…

Fever Ray
Also peep the videos for:
When I Grow Up
If I Had a Heart

The Body is two dudes from Providence, RI making some amazingly loud jams. Their face.to.the.floor breed of sludge-metal? is somewhat of a departure from most of the music so far featured on this blog. Brain piercing lobotomy sized shrieks and ribcage smashing instrumentals are not exactly on the same level as the whispery cuddlepop of Tokidoki’s “Cookie Cutter.” But, after their recent show in Brooklyn I struck up a conversation with Chip (right), where we talked about touring, luminous and phosphorescent beaches, Providence, technology, and probably some other stuff too. Turns out when i couldn’t find them for their park slope show in April it was because they totally got fucked by some dude they trusted to help them out and couldn’t play anyways cuz the cops shut the show down. I only mention this because I was pretty upset that i couldn’t find the place. I probably should have tried to interview them, but i just didnt realize that id end up talking to them for that long. Anyways, even though they make angry sounding, politically motivated, sure to break your speakers and headphones musics, it all comes from a genuine love of their community, good people, nature, and lots of other things. Don’t worry though they will still rock your basement to rubbles as you stand right there helpless with nothing to do except bang the shit out of your head as you go deaf.

The Body:

(go by the records too, you wont regret it)

let’s get this shit going.

everybuggy, welcome blake, brandon, greg + karima!!!!

Hi friends!

This is the cookiecutter blog! Heres a few brief and short things:

A CookieCutter - is a beautiful device that is used for the purposes of taking regular old blobby and lumpy cookie dough and shaping it into something else like, for example, shapes of people holding hands, or beautiful butterflies, or pretty cat faces…. etcetera etcetera.

This Blog - is one of the many brainchildren of someone who does not want to forget about the beautiful sounds that can come from needles scratching vinyl groves, or the 1’s and 0’s zipping around your computer highways, or the little magnet particles pulling around in the tape player of your handmedown ‘87 mazda, or the air being blown from the parking lots, mom’s basements, cafés, friends houses, and where ever else it may come from.

“Cookie Cutter” – is a beautiful song (and I guess an appropriate starting point for this blogling) by the band Tokidoki. It is the second song on the A side of the “Margies Candies” EP. I think (correct me if i’m wrong) it was released in 1994 or 1995. I know I discovered it in 2006 during my college radio show when my partner in crime came into the studio, put it on the turntable, and said “You really have to hear this right now. This is the cutest song ever.” And it was indeed the cutest song ever.

Wish that I had a cookie cutter so that I could make a thousand shapes of you and me holding hands/ Put them in the oven bake them at four hundred degreeeeeeees/ Frost them with the sweetest icing that you’d ever ever taste, glisten brightly in the kitchen made of sun/ Decorate them with the colors that reminded you of me

These sweet little lyrics delivered in a tiny homemade box made of sugary high pitched vocals, acoustic guitar, a baby organ solo, and a hook that ever so softly screams “cookie cutter/ cookie cutterYEAH!” makes for a beautiful pop present that warms my heart and the hearts of many others (especially readers and contributors of this little blog). This song and the rest of this EP is some of the finest pop music I’ve ever heard.

So now that the origins of cookie cutter have been spelled out we can move on to whatever randomness may come next…