CHROMEO

me too

new album is really good

less zapp. more boogie

3rd annual mustach party is coming up. i can't wait

http://art-ificial.com/images/jason-chromeo.jpg

love the mix disc on eskimo. so so on the actual stuff.

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KEEP ON THUGGIN

wait is that tynan?

something very thin about the drums on this stuff tho
i am feeling the trashy hipsterness of it

haha. tynan. that's me and chromeo dude. i'm gonna go cry now

i need to hear that eskimo mix. robert palmer covers the System's "You are in my system"?! drool

how sick is this cover artwork?

http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Xu1MntTsL._SS500_.jpg

Have I ever told the story on here about Chromeo cruising in the Jetta?

try to keep it under 4,000 words

Actually it isn't really a story, so I should avoid unduly creating suspense, like it's a good story or anything: I used to always see the smaller guy from Chromeo in my neighborhood, usually just standing around talking on his cell phone, and that seemed kinda cool but insufficiently special -- I mean, I wanted to see Chromeo TOGETHER, you know. But then a few months went by and I was crossing a street and a car stopped next to me, and I looked to my left and it was both members of Chromeo, finally together. And they were wearing sweaty white t-shirts and sitting in a Jetta with a bunch of furniture in the back seat, moving someone out of his apartment. And there was something so weird about seeing both members of CHROMEO together in such a mundane situation -- it was like a lolcat picture, "oh hai, we R Chromeo, he gots new one-bedroom" -- that I started laughing and they gave me a weird look.

This is so not a good story, but if I had a picture of Chromeo sitting in a little Jetta moving house, you would totally lose your shit over it.

xpost try to bite me

I really like their Feist remix.

"Needy Girl" sounds even better now that it's outlasted its original context.

needy girl is undeniable

ya

go chro

no one's heard the new album i'm guessing? that's why i started the thread and all...

its on oink.

but i havent heard

I heard Needy girl at a Vice party recently. It sounded good. I feel doubly ashamed.

it's great, holds together better as a whole than the first one did. really though it just makes me twitchy until they tour again.

i got it yesterday. it's okay. vocals kill it a little for me. but the music isn't bad. i predict trade-in for vinyl.

no x-post warning!

"it's on oink" uh yeah and it's been in the shops for almost two months

it might be better than the vice books i've been getting though. what's the trade-in value on those?

the new one is totally great, the first one was totally :-/

i think the first one is a really solid record, but I haven't played it in a long time

i like them, too. i saw them open for the unicorns in 2005 and was pleasantly surprised.

Needy Girl is in a Reese's ad and it's confusing

the new album is great. 100% = total summer jam, even though it's winter.

it also makes me want listen to lots more of the music that Chromeo obviously listen to - i guess the Eskimo mix is a good place to start?

100% = total summer jam, even though it's winter.

lol hemisphere?

i guess the Eskimo mix is a good place to start?

Haven't heard their Eskimo mix yet, but the Ce Soir On Danse! mix on Disque Primeur is aces.

http://www.discogs.com/release/794987

...wow, that's not very helpful, is it? Disque Primeur and Chromeo's websites are both useless as far as getting the tracklist and horrifyingly Flash-heavy; their Myspace doesn't have it; and Arcade Mode, which I'm fairly sure used to have a tracklist, is out of stock. Ah well.

i was talking w/ tremendoid about this, but my initial instinct is to be wary of the mixes; what makes them so great? I'd be afraid of it being a sort of generic 80s touchpoint mix or something and i really do enjoy their own music as 80s pastiche more than i think i would enjoy a random 80s mix from hipster dilettantes

try this then. not hipster dilettante

kenny dope's roller disco mix. completely breautiful
http://www.tunes.co.uk/tunes/featured/8411.html

a random 80s mix from hipster dilettantes

these dudes are serious business about the 80s shit. i met p at a record fair and he was diggin deeeeep!

that said i havent heard the mix

http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/s/swadewithth_backtothe_101b.jpg

thoughts on this? less hipsteur cheese, more collectro authenticity type shit, more r&b less pop than chromeo, i don't think i like it quite as much tho. Still some great songs on it (omg "too young to love")

more revivalism, less pastiche

"I'm Your Paradise" is prob the best song actually

Chromeo playing for free in SF. I have been digging this for months now and will probably check it, seeing its around the corner from my work. http://www.mezzaninesf.com/calendar.asp

they are tight live.

that 'tenderoni' joint is awesome. i wasn't so into the last record but i might get the new one.

'bonified lovin' and 'call me up' are my joints

U CAN CALLLLL ME UP
LATE AT NITE!

so drunkhigh

i am going to see them live with 'fl0sstradamus'

haha i might too. but i might die if i do.

bf just saw them in williamsburg, had a good time even tho it was barely tolerable, venue wise

There is a pre-self-titled album mix floating around called "le mix." Obligatory Klymaxx, Cameo, etc., but some other good stuff. I'm going to the show this saturday @ empty bottle (fits 7.5 people), should be riot-inducing.

yeah thats where i'll be

Going to see them in a couple of days, LOVED needy girl and some of the rest of that album grew on me... hopefully will be a good time! (venue is kind of budget but not lacking in space)

loving the baltimora-style "oh-oh-wa-oh" on "bonafide lovin"

i cant believe ppl i respect/tolerate are feeling this garbage

nile rodgers : chromeo :: big daddy kane : edan

i enjoy the hipster cheese of it. its certainly a part of the appeal

i dont think anyone would argue this is as great as roger troutman or something

also chicks dig on this

look im not hating just cuz hipster douchebags or whatever (my gf likes hot chip) but unless you own every 80s r&b 12" ever produced theres no excuse to waste time on the vice magazine edition

for the price of 1 chromeo record you could buy 15 dollar bin classics

i d***loaded the chromeo record and will gladly see cameo if i catch them touring for 12 dollars

yeah i dont know that id necessarily spend $$ on this but i dont really have a problem w/ this kind of pastiche/revival/whatever; id take zapp over these guys any day but ive heard more bounce to the ounce about six million times

plus if i can use them to get babes into lisa lisa & cult jam then im all for it

There's something about the best parts of the new one, though, that don't really feel like pastiche -- god knows how, since every individual element seems like pastiche, but there's something about the whole that winds up feeling to me a bit like the difference between Daft Punk and whatever Daft Punk are sampling. (I.e., not really different in content, but somehow vastly different in feel and application and whatnot.)

yeah and even on the point about shows, cuet girls go to chromeo shows and formerly-cuet 30/40-somethings go to SOS Band reunions

is there an sos band reunion? i would go to that too probably

i dont think they ever broke up

i would like to take my mom to a chromeo show. she would be a good bellweather to their fidelity and authenticity

look im not hating just cuz hipster douchebags or whatever (my gf likes hot chip) but unless you own every 80s r&b 12" ever produced theres no excuse to waste time on the vice magazine edition
-- and what, Thursday, July 12, 2007 6:36 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

but i do own them all. also, i am hipster douchebag

i think im saying i like it because hipster douchebags. hipstersploitation

I like most of the songs but some of them are duds. I get embarrassed when the female voice comes on about the telephone number. Great legs on the cover though.

I like this a lot, except for the Momma's Boy song.

going to see these guys @ the echo next thursday

they played a short set in chicago but it was fun. the ladies there were hot yes

haha deej im glad youve caught on to why i like chromeo

see also: why i owned dave matthews band "crash"

tho i listen to chromeo by myself way more than i ever listened to dave

haha i totally suspected you had a dmb past

no offense

none taken, im finally able to admit that 90% of the music i listen to i choose specifically to attract girls.

i am so far pretty unsuccessful.

I like the first album better, but the new one is definitely fun. They're playing for free on Monday here in SF as part of a going.com promo. Probably be tons of people there I guess.

show was really fun. girls got on the stage and danced with them. P played drums on a girls butt.

funnnn show

dude loooks/acts kind of like pre-born to run jewish bruce

I saw them last week. Muy fun.

ugh

i cant believe ppl i respect/tolerate are feeling this garbage

-- and what, Thursday, July 12, 2007 7:22 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Link

otm

My roommate got Chromeo in the mail, not every 80s 12" R&B ever produced so I've been listening to the former. :(

if 00s R&B actually sounded like 80s R&B...

these days = a bad Felix D H. they sound like they're taking the piss.

how so

i didn't really know who these guys were, but they are on mtv all the time right now like they are the dance ed lover and doctor dre.

really? great, i love 'em.

fuck these guys

: O

xpost I don't think they'd fancy my fat arse. But I quite like their music.

i wasn't sure if they were a comedy troupe or what

the dude who looks like turtle from entourage has a vocoder implant

I love Chromeo.

Props to my homegirl Lorna who turned me on to this shizzle after hearing about it from two groovy guys she worked with in Urban Outfitters in SF.

Tenderoni is good. I could swallow them slightly better if I could be sure they weren't just taking the piss. I mean they could love this sound as much as I do...

i think they have a genuine love of 80s soul and synthfunk. check out their mix on eskimo, they're well into it. i remember when air came out everybody thought they were joking, but a little bit of humour in music isn't such a bad thing anyway. don't be some "OMG, everything is so ironic nowadays" drip.

xpost - please don't post again

Okay (shit!)

Props to my homegirl Lorna who turned me on to this shizzle after hearing about it from two groovy guys she worked with in Urban Outfitters in SF.

you cant make this shit up.

ok, you could.

I was just taking the piss a bit. I don't actually sound like that but whatevs.

So... it appears you can easily.

Chromeo: The Next Crossover Band That We Feel Like We're Not Allowed to Like Any More?

MTV's Buzzworthy Blog features Chromeo this week.

Of course they make amazing music, but maybe it's just going to be annoying when all of the mainstreamers are post-post ironically having fun while listening to Chromeo, and saying "Let's have a party where we dress up like we're in the 1980s." Then you'll log into facebook one Monday morning, and see a bunch of pictures of girls dressed like they are from the 1980s, and having a lot of fun.

So Buzzworthy.

Chromeo's good, but I think the blogosphere will probably focus more on Calvin Harris now that Chromeo is 'no longer ours.'

"Let's have a party where we dress up like we're in the 1980s."

didn't this happen about 3 years ago anyway?

all those mainstreamers

I hate hate hate Calvin Harris. It sounds so cheaply cobbled together.

And yeah, all the art school girls are so past 80's. Its all nu-rave nostalgia. Or so it would seem. I would have thought it a little early, but who am I to judge.

And why would anyone care about someone crossing over into the mainstream?

http://www.cs.nyu.edu/courses/spring04/V22.0002-001/Escher_hands_2.jpg

>>>>>>>fuck these guys

-- omar little, Monday, October 8, 2007 6:46 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link<<<<<<<<<

^^^^^^^^

i would like chromeo, but deej enjoys it because people don't enjoy it because hipster douchebags enjoy it except they don't know because they are on mtv so maybe i do like them. you wouldn't believe how hard it is to smugly contrary sometimes.

I can imagine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fb5FOa3DrkY

is this stuff out of control yet

i really am having trouble figuring out how to be er 'smugly contrary' or whatever here!!! this is fun but diminishing returns the more of these groups show up i think

something about their willingness to throw every pastiche cliche into it + dudes mj imitation is leaving me feeling very conflicted

hm wow this is good. i guess if you wanna make this type of music— and i guess that's probably where this problem starts, but it's fine w/ me— you might as well jump all the way into the deep end and have a video like this and carry on like they do, or else it seems like your half-assing it, and intense self-conciousness would probably hinder the success of the music.

i guess part of why i stand/actively like stuff like this is because i don't have an intense emotional attachment to the music it so obviously mines, so my immediate reaction isn't "fuck you!"

its really quite well done

i'm just afraid we're getting very close to, i dunno, The Caesars of 80s electro pastiche groups or something

and some things are lost in the sort of lyrical vaguenesses required to keep it 'timeless'

based on the two other songs i've just heard on myspace, private (ugh, btw) seem to be stretching their legs pretty well within the kind of box they're inherently in by making the music they're making. they seem way less one trick pony than chromeo, like "crucify my heart" has that awesome singing by the woman at the end that's just really genuinely awesome, super-talented singing, and something like that is way more rewarding than a lot of the things chromeo do.

i agree. chromeo had the freshness of being first tho. i think what rubs the wrong way about this is that you can really see the limits of the style they're working with

that kind of thing frustrates me more w/ something like new young pony club, who seem to want to work within the mold more than these guys, but then again maybe private are just much better at what they do.

or maybe i'm giving private too much credit. i guess the flipside is appreciating when something is this good because you can see the limits of the style they're working with, however self-imposed they may be.

now im confused

yeah idk maybe i am too. i don't pay enough attention to stuff like this to have reached a satuartion point, really. good shit tho, thx for the link.

new young pony club is super terrible. not sure what that has to do w/cromeo, but whatever.

re: cromeo - more of the music, more of the choruses, less of moustache dude talk rapping.

Eh...I like both Chromeo and NYPC (not really sure why the latter are being brought into this, they're a different pastiche), but this feels kind of embarrassing. I don't know how to put this really, but where Chromeo are equal parts genuine enthusiasm and aloof distance, this tips too far toward the latter. It also feels like they're trying too damn hard. The forced MJ vocals, the nauseating "rap" section, it's...icky.

I love New Young Pony Club.

Yes, but what of Private?

Never heard of them.

chromeo were not the first at anything

they were first at not being first

what is other successful mid-80s R&B/funk pastiche groups not actually from this era

i think i agree w/ reverend but some of these songs aren't really bad either

i like that they try to hard.

I enjoy Chromeo's album (its all about the keyb fills) but ugh not feeling "Private." This song is tepid!

too*

im gonna stop riding the fence and say i agree, dollars to donuts this ends up in an ipod commercial in a couple months and i'll never want to hear it again.

chromeo still good tho

I'd rather hear Chromeo than look at them, though

yah chromeo is good but theres been doods dancing with their laptops to prince style shit way before them

I am always up for a good Zapp rip

word

eh well i am generally outside of their target audience i guess

Private = good song - rap bit.
video = good - watching that dude dance

other 80s funk/disco groups out now = Escort

Swade

^ ugh, sounds like some mid 90s house/jazzy jungle/lounge/sushi bar music

it doesnt really have a hint of irony to it, but most of the songs are zzz with a couple exceptions. but i think those songs are very good.

Escort are good.

jaymc, you dumbass. David linked to Private's video in his revive. That's kind of what we've been talking about in this section of thread.

when i was all hating on this i had never heard 'bonafide lovin'... thats a jam

still dont get why these dudes dont just like do a comeback album for chaka khan or some shit

Private sucks, i heard the obscure boogie track that they explicitly ripped off of for their single on trusme's release party mix and i felt gross for even bringing them up

This song is tepid!

-- da croupier, Tuesday, October 30, 2007 12:50 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark Link

this was wrong, what was tepid was that it was a cover masquerading as a new song

that makes sense then i guess

>>>>>>>fuck these guys

-- omar little, Monday, October 8, 2007 6:46 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link<<<<<<<<<

^^^^^^^^

-- That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, October 9, 2007 3:34 PM

been jamming to 100% lately

lmao nobody told me these dudes made beats for non phixion

chromeo go over to Daryl Hall's house and play songs with him and his band

http://www.livefromdarylshouse.com/index.php?page=ep10

oh, that's just the first song of the whole episode. the interviews are fun.

here's Say No Go. gets kinda jazzy, but still fun to hear the talk box over the song
http://www.livefromdarylshouse.com/index.php?page=ep10

livefromdarylshouse.com!!!!!

!!!!?!?!?!!!!!

daryl's morphing into willem dafoe

i'm sure he's on this site somewhere
http://menwholooklikeoldlesbians.blogspot.com/

the bit where he talks about restoring houses is ^_^

this is great! i wish they had done Private Eyes, that would have been amazing.

oh and unrelated but my girlfriend went to the afterparty for their recent LA show and her friend made out with P

'her friend'

...and now she's like 2 months pregnant, weird right?

i mean her friend

Chromeo making the guest rounds, VP announcement soon

http://img32.picoodle.com/data/img32/3/8/22/f_vpm_1767ab1.jpg

hahahaha

http://rcrdlbl.com/artists/Chromeo/track/I_Cant_Tell_You_Why_

oh yeah

apparently chromeo & darryl hall are gonna play together at bonnaroo

lol @ me upthread

The Chromeo DJ Kicks looks fantastic. Can anyone report back?

you gotta have some tiny balls to not like Chromeo

Looks down....
Fair enough.

Chromeo just kicked off their tour for the new album, so much fun.

lol at me calling jaymc a dumbass

of all the acts to surface around the period these guys came onto the scene, I never would've guessed they would be the ones to still be standing. their persistance is pretty inspiring.

Personally I don't think they've made any progress since Fancy Footwork(2007) and I am wondering why I bothered after She's in Control (2004). Everything else is regression.

weird thing to say about a retro act

fancy footwork was way way better than shes in control

We need retro because some people didn't pay attention to cool electro records the first time around. I listened to Fancy Footwork about eighty two times and thought it was a big fat DUD. The magic just isn't there. I think I gave them a chance. They're kind of asking for it, nothing can top classics like "You're so Gangsta" or even "Woman Friend".

'youre so gangsta' is not a classic

If you don't love electro it isn't.

Anyway....I'm willing to give Business Casual a chance....when it comes out.

If you don't love electro it isn't.

― Shut Up. Kenny G. Etc. (u s steel), Tuesday, July 27, 2010 10:14 PM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

thats like every song of theirs. 'youre so gangsta' is a corny conceit & pretty repetitive & just not that good. the first record was super spotty in the songwriting dept. & that track was no exception ... the singing on the verses is really bad & annoying, and the beat is super basic & lame. i dunno just listening to it again, very thin & kinda actively abrasive

like, ive been listening to 80s electro for years dude ... this is just a really thin pastiche & so is most of that first record. they def stepped up the songwriting a whole bunch on the second one, the production is a lot tighter, its just a much much better & more consistent record

i mean those fucking awful guitars on 'destination: overdrive' ... seriously?? u think this record is all that?

needy girl is still teh best tho

yah that one really works

bout the only track i think

needy girl & fancy footwork are 10/10 imo... could give or take pretty much everything else

i like some of the newer stuff

that one that max posted upthread is nice

apparently chromeo & darryl hall are gonna play together at bonnaroo

i saw this, it was a good time. was much more the darryl hall show than a chromeo show, but they were fun. i went to that instead of DARK FLAMING LIPS OF THE MOON, i think it was a much better choice.

needy girl & fancy footwork are 10/10 imo... could give or take pretty much everything else

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, July 27, 2010 11:10 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

no no no the 2nd album has a bunch of jams ... 'bonafied lovin' 'tenderoni' 'call me up' '100%' ... it was like they stopped seeing 80s as a random throw-against-the-wall pastiche & kinda realized that hey this stuff was already funny ... it seems like they really care abt the music on the 2nd record & it wasnt just one big remember-the-80s joke

100% is super ill

There are a ton of solid songs on Fancy Footwork--basically the entire thing is mixtape/party worthy. Even Momma's Boy turns into something of a jam. I would be surprised if the new record is even close to as good as FF but it doesn't need to be.

oh yeah, "bonafied lovin" is actually really good

no no no, you have to like what I like, dammit!

\oO/ dude im right what can i say

oh man i love "100%". and i pretty much agree w/deej about fancy footwork. solid album

I gave it another shot but I have to say "Bona fide Lovin" goes down easy enough but is kind of poo.

the eli escobar remix of bonafied lovin is much better than the og, but i could never find a decent download and it only ever seemed to come out on fabriclive38

so chromeo eh

seeing them in tripod in dublin this november - on a thursday, not cool

\oO/ dude im right what can i say

― blap...tremendo (deej), Wednesday, July 28, 2010 2:14 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark

two heads?

That second album is growing on me, good r & b and seventies sounds in it...it's just a tad lightweight..maybe I should take a vacation until Business Casual comes out.

two heads?

― kim cardassian (s1ocki), Wednesday, July 28, 2010 8:12 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

better than 1

'lightweight' is p much the problem w/ most of the 1st one ... its like they have these vague ideas of what '80s R&B' is like & occasionally a good idea (like the melody for the hook of 'your so gangsta') that they meld w/ these cliches in order to paper over a lack of well anything else ... anyway ive made my pt i think

love the actual verses in You're So Gangsta, should have kept 'em on the album

looks like i'm going to see these guys saturday night will report back

theyre super fun iirc

expect a really young crowd tho

oh i've seen them many times - hometown crowd yo

oh right

theyre super fun

ya

originally, when they started, i remember they were kind of bad live, and then all of the sudden they came back and were like, super awesome.

true. story.

I liked 'em with a real drummer

they were super fun when i saw them on fancy footwork tour - 21+ crowd. Birdman was there and the evening all around was super sexy

ok, maybe birdman wasn't there

I liked 'em on Fancy Footwork tour too, three out of the four times I saw 'em. Birdman wasn't there either.

(Fourth time was a festival mainstage in the afternoon, just way too big for 'em. Watched six minutes and went to see lol Wale instead.)

but it was all around super sexy tho, right?

so the video came out today

http://www.somekindofawesome.com/journal/2010/7/29/watch-chromeo-dont-turn-the-lights-on.html

i like the song (had it for a few weeks), and i appreciate the comedy video vibe but like.. something about it is a bit lame

song is dope imo

"Don't Turn the Lights On"....is that a Can reference? Always suspected them of making subtle references to others' work. In any case, new album is due soon, no??

it's out already

out today in .au

dear god I'd never heard the beginning of fancy footwork before. Thriller much?

Beat it obvs

Them playing with John Oates as mentioned upthread is kind of awesome. fun, nerdy production talk here at and then at 3:50 they start jammin on No Can Do (can't go for that)

http://www.youtube.com/user/LiveFromDarylsHouse?v=GXXvUa5Tzco&feature=pyv&ad=4413041629&kw=chromeo&gclid=CJfOrJvGvaQCFSFbiAodW2jB0g

more synth and funk record talk
here. These bros are just likable, I like when they speak French to each other.

i thought i would be over them by now but this made me lol

"We’re not openly talking about any of these subjects in our music. Rather than talk about them explicitly we prefer to offer hints for people to make their own minds. When we named the album White Women we thought we’d provoke debates on issues of sex, race and gender. We’re in the midst of a conservative moment in America. The backlash to “Blurred Lines” was so puritanical. White Women is the title of Helmut Newton’s first book.

The other thing that’s super important to us is the question of race. Pat and I are very ambiguous: he’s a Christian Lebanese and I’m an Arab Jew. These things are confusing to most people in America. If people are going to listen to our music, why not make them think too? We made an album that’s racially blurred, an homage to black music titled White Women. You can appreciate it first degree or you can see an intellectual discourse on the war of sexes and race. In that way, it’s neither traditional funk nor traditional electronic music."

their fallon perfomance with death from above is pretty slick.

yeah that Fallon performance was so so so good.
http://www.latenightwithjimmyfallon.com/video/chromeo-ft-death-from-above-1979-sexy-socialite/n42450/

all about the vamping at around the 4.45 min mark

really liking this album tbf tbh

this album is dope

this thing is like legit 80% great.

the back half of Somethingood! the teen pop opener. Tory Y Moi is probably someone i am supposed to hate but that song is so good. that hook and the solange hook are pure maple syrup. lots of hooks really. Ezras intld i was ready to HATE but its actually incredible. the sax on Fall Back 2u.

Very, very into this.

Yeah it's fun, liked it better than I thought I would.

I've heard half of this - I like the opener a lot; some of the lyrics are a little clunky.

The lede in your pitchfork review was a little bit weird though j0rd - is it really a thing now that all decent albums must have significant written and oral retrospectives on their tenth birthday before officially joining the canon?

is it really a thing now that all decent albums must have significant written and oral retrospectives on their tenth birthday before officially joining the canon?

sadly yes?

i admit that it was a bit awkward though. i felt like it was the easiest route to get to my thesis, which is that this album in particular feels like something that really benefits from not being weighed down by expectations and the way people discuss music online writ large (a contrasting album would be like... the EMA record or something)

This is a lot better than it needed to be! Little things like the outro on "Play The Fool" & the bridge on "Sexy Socialite" are gorgeous.

(& since nobody's posted it to the thread & the existence thereof cheers me up, here's "Fancy Footwork" getting used in Step Up 3D:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9nkv4z6-aE
)

Oliver co-production is the secret weapon here. Likewise for that new Camron/A-Trak joint. Watch out for those guys. Big pop things in their future I think.

I love the new album, and especially the extended tracks. They feel like updated 70s/80s funk 12"s that are still fun and listenable despite somewhat weak hooks because of good instrumentation and flow. Jealous is the clear standout and the only one that really works as a sub 4 minute pop track.

Really didn't expect Chromeo to be the first people to be given a shot at the Lorde single, but I'm quite taken with this:

https://soundcloud.com/lordemusic/green-light-chromeo-remix

"Jealous" got a lot of mainstream and background music play... good for them. The album went to #11.

this is so pleasant, and works great next to the Calvin Harris songs on my summer playlist (which is still funny to me—never would have believed a year ago would be a statement that made any sense)

hmm maybe calvin harris and chromeo will start the Premature Bloghouse Revival That Was Foretold

I'd really love for Chromeo to become bigger stars now that even Bruno Mars has stole their thunder.

New video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j-ED6tL85o

<3

it seems amazing that in the post-Uptown Funk world Chromeo are still a second-tier act but then you see a video like that and it all makes sense

Haha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7w-Dp16hH0

New single with Morgan Geist production!

The relationship dynamics as depicted in the new video are...intriguing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIGIWKfbUiw