Five Things

(Toro Y Moi)

• The Flaming Lips will be featured in this Super Bowl ad on Sunday.  But things get darker from there, as the band is set to release their thirteenth stuido album, The Terror, in April.   Wayne Coyne (by the way, a great Instagram follow) explains, "Why would we make this music that is The Terror--this bleak, disturbing record?  I don't really want to know the answer that I think is coming.  Maybe this is the beginning of the answer.  If we have love, give love and know love, we are truly alive and if there is no love, there would be know life.  The Terror, we know now, that even without love, life goes on . . . we just go on . . . there is no mercy killing."  For a band with consistently awesome album cover art, check out The Terror's existential blast of loneliness here.
• Toro Y Moi's new album morphs from chillwave to dance-pop.  Check out the videos for the first two singles from Anything in Return, "So Many Details" and "Say That."
• Youth Lagoon will be opening for The National at the Barclay's Center in Brooklyn.  Heady stuff for a young kid from Boise that was only recently making music in his bedroom.  Trevor Powers will be soon releasing the follow-up to his phenomenal debut, The Year of Hibernation. Check out "Dropla" from Wondrous Bughouse here.
• Depeche Mode has a new single from the forthcoming album, Delta Machine.  Listen to "Heaven" here.
• The Knife's first studio album was otherwordly, spawning one of the best songs in the new milennium.  Seven years later, the Swedish siblings Karin Dreijer Andersson and Olaf Dreijer will be releasing their second record, Shaking the Habitual.  Check out the freaky track "Full of Fire" here.