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Download “Flare Gun” from You Ain’t Picasso or Good Hodgkins (from the compilation Esopus 8)

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Photo: Georg Schroll

Final Fantasy leads the pack in another compilation- Esopus Magazine’s eighth installment, Esopus 8, of which the theme is spam. As in junk mail. In “For Me to Say,” Frida Hyvönen sings:

Someone cared to send me
A letter to recommend me
To enlarge my penis

Surgery and exercise,
Would I walk that extra mile to
Enlarge my penis?

Owen Pallett / Final Fantasy’s “Flare Gun” is less direct, involving fortresses, birds and beasts. Trademark strings and piano are in full swing. Entire album can be previewed.

Previously:

• Stars - Do You Trust Your Friends?

Download “You Never Got Me Right” (live at Bowery Ballroom, originally from Until Death Comes)
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Sweden’s Frida Hyvonen’s got a bold personality and a defiant voice to match. She toured with Denmark’s Under Byen and stopped by at Bowery Ballroom in March. There she played a solid solo set, asking the audience to buy her a glass of white wine and promising to buy one for whoever volunteered later. “You Never Got Me Right,” a personal favorite of mine from the album, gives an example of her smart lyrics and angsty folk sound. In “Cricket” I’ve left a little bit of the amusing conversation in the beginning. It’ll fill you in on the musical Pudel, and on how Frida feels about some Poodle owners.

More music + downloads (after the jump):