Daydream Vacation - That Girl Don't Sleep
Head Like A Kite f/ Asya of Smooosh - Noisy At The Circus
Well, this makes me feel old!
Smoosh were a Seattle-based indie duo composed of two sisters who were approximately 14 and 12 years-old when this video was filmed. The older of the two sisters, Asya, is now somewhere between 19-20 years-old. This is weirding me out for reasons I can’t explain. It’s like she’s a distant cousin who used to be in diapers as of yesterday, and now she’s suddenly a grown-up with a life of her own. They grow up so fast!
In any case, Asya has recently teamed up with Dave Einmo of Head Like A Kite for a new project called Daydream Vacation. The pair first collaborated on Head Like A Kite’s 2006 debut Random Portraits of the Home Movie, with Asya providing vocals for one of my favorite HLAK tracks “Noisy At The Circus”. They later reconvened on the band’s 2008 album There Is Loud Laughter Everywhere on a song called “Daydream Vacation”. Thus the name of their current project.
Daydream Vacation could best be described as “electro funk”… But when you hear “funk” in this instance, think more along the lines of Chromeo or Beck rather than James Brown or George Clinton. I’m not making a convincing argument for this, am I?
Oh well! I promise it’s some good shit. Click through (or look below) to listen to “Clever Is Not My Best Excuse”, one of the band’s best offerings so far:
