Yeasayers and MGMT Comparison?

I think The World's Best Ever is a pretty fantastic blog.  I've found a number of siiiick clothes, art works and musics over there, and they do a great job of keeping things simple: present awesome shit and let the reader figure it out for themselves whether they agree or not, no real explanation, just badassery.

I was checking them out on the reader when I came across their Madder Red video post (by Yeasayer). The song is pretty clutch, as is a bunch of their other work, but the video?  Well, you'll have to see for yourself.  Kristen Bell is in love with...something, and apparently doesn't have her priorities straight, because she let's her mother stay at home with it while it's spitting blood and pus and essentially dying, which I was unshockingly ok with (you'll see what i mean).



In this case, TWBE threw me for a loop and compared the preceding vid for Madder Red to a "prequel for MGMT's Congratulation video."  I'm not quiiiite sure I see it.  Can someone help me out?

Yikes!

So I have no good excuse why I haven't posted in over a month.  It's been a whirlwind of a summer, and I'm still getting used to this blogging thing.  I have been voraciously consuming a few tracks on the Temper Trap album, and while I've yet to see them live (shenanigans at Squatch and then $80 scalper tix when they came to Seattle have prevented it thus far), I have great hopes for their show.

The Aussie band has been on tour recently, doing shows across the US (Seattle, Sasquatch and Lollapalooza among them).  Interestingly enough, they're meeting up and will be performing with The Pixies in Mexico this October.  Now THAT'S the show to see.

I know Fader and Sweet Disposition (my fav of the two most popular) have been radio hits, but I am diggin on Love Lost.  The song intros with the organ and clapping leads us into to Dougy Mandagi's airy lead vocals and then a great beat laid by the drums and guitar.  The video, featuring at first a solo boy, then group of boys running through the rain, is quite appropes.  The whole song is fantastic to run to - maybe not for tearing up a 100m, but a fantastic three and a half minute portion of your 5k.