Leavves, High
Leavves are quickly winning me over. First it was a great cover of Lana Del Rey’s Video Games and now this new original track “High.” I’ve been missing The Big Pink a lot and this one totally helps fill that void. If you are smitten too “High” can be downloaded for free over at Bandcamp!
Last year I made this song under the fake band name “Leavves” and posted in on Bandcamp. Then I tagged the song with the genre “Chillwave”. To my surprise some people just somehow found it and passed it onto bloggers! Danceyrselfclean and TMDS are 2 stand outs to me.
I announced on the Leavves twitter and facebook that the project was a social experiment but as I respect some of the bloggers that covered it I just want to make absolutely clear that the experiment was what tagging songs with buzz-genres would lead to and had nothing to do with the quality of the music.
I was just going to let it sit forever but i noticed that the band has over 1000 <3’s on hype machine and 1000+ last.fm listeners and I just thought this was too interesting to keep to myself.
Andrew Futral is some kind of genius.
also he is producing Track #1 off The Teenage Years which is an LP I’ll be releasing song-by-song over the course of 2012. Look out!
Andrew Futral is my favorite human being, and this is the funniest thing.
Andrew you boss.
Andrew you boss.
Andrew Futral is my favorite human being, and this is the funniest thing.
This is brilliant.
this is why andrew is the best. a brilliant little social experiment from the producer of my first record “sometimes....
——- Thanks for posting this, Allison! Digging it in full.