Circuit des Yeux: Paper Bag

A delightfully eccentric experimental folk tale, “Paper Bag” is the latest from Chicago’s Circuit des Yeux. An official lyric video accompanied the release, and its contents—selected and edited together by Meg Remy—are just as delightfully baffling. The song takes an unexpected turn at 2:10. The video is a collision of evocative sequences, some fun and others simply strange. “Paper Bag” will appear on Reaching for …

Motörhead: Heroes (David Bowie Cover)

While David Bowie, Ian “Lemmy” Kilmister, and Phil Taylor aren’t on Earth, and Motörhead is no more, a video of the influential British metal band covering Bowie’s 1997 song “Heroes” has just been released. It remains faithful to the original version in many ways, though the band plays the song in their classic style: heavy, fast and loud. Recorded during sessions for Bad Magic, this …

Alex Cameron + Angel Olsen: Stranger’s Kiss

A duet of barbed advice from a couple in the midst of a break-up, “Stranger’s Kiss” pairs Australian duo Alex Cameron’s burgeoning balladry with folk rock starlet Angel Olsen’s warm vocals. Jemima Kirke wrote, directed and starred in the music video, an eccentric and compelling character study involving a dancing doppelgänger on a mission. Alex Cameron’s album Forced Witness releases 8 September on Secretly Canadian.