Here’s a sweet little video of the two performing the song live above a house terrace in LA.  The announcement has been made of a co-headlining tour with El Perro Del Mar and Taken By Trees.  Ms. Assbring seems to never tour anywhere remotely close to me, so the list of dates is a bit disappointing.  One of these days, though!  It shall happen!

Tour dates can be seen here.

MP3: El Perro Del Mar :: “Change of Heart”
MP3: El Perro Del Mar :: “Change of Heart” (Rakamonie Remix)

Tags: El Perro Del Mar, Lykke Li, Taken By Trees

If you’ve been keeping up with my Twitter feed, you may have noticed that I’ve been incredibly busy as of late. I just can’t seem to catch a break with finding time to blog now that I currently work two jobs. Of course, those who have been keeping up have come to expect lengthy periods of inactiveness, at least on my part.

Mentioning any kind of worthwhile albums from the past three weeks is just a meaningless task, as you can just take a peek below to see the excellent amount of releases at your disposal. Hopefully, next week we can get back to the weekly postings, but there are no guarantees unfortunately. Hope everyone understands!

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Still catching up on a lot of things I’ve missed lately, and another to add to this ever-growing list is this recent 7″ split single from Lykke Li and El Perro Del Mar that was released for Record Store Day last month.  It’s a set of covers that includes a cover of Wendy Rene’s “After Laughter (Comes Tears)” by Lykke Li and El Perro Del Mar covering Aaliyah’s cover of The Isley Brothers’ “(At Your Best) You Are Love.”  I don’t think I’ve used the word “cover” so many times in one sentence.

Listening to the cover from Ms. Assbring, I realized that this could easily be mistaken for a top 40 pop song.  You don’t often hear much praise for her vocal ability, and I think this cover shows how underrated she can be despite her knack for putting out great pop songs.  Take a listen for yourself below, and here’s a video of both women performing “After Laughter (Comes Tears)” during one of La Blogothèque’s take away shows.

MP3: El Perro Del Mar :: “(At Your Best) You Are Love”

Tags: El Perro Del Mar, Lykke Li

Still in a state of catch up with all of the recent happenings during my short little break the past couple of weeks, and it’s always so difficult to get back into the swing of things after realizing how much I missed out on in just a short amount of time.

One bit of exciting news is the announcement of a new release — well a mini-album — from El Perro Del Mar (Sarah Assbring). The forthcoming release titled Love Is Not Pop contains seven new songs, which were recorded with Rasmus Hägg, who is one half of the Swedish electronic duo, Studio. This pairing brings forth so many possibilities with the direction the sound could take on this record, so i’m very anxious to get my hands on this one. Plus, as much as I love El Perro Del Mar, last year’s From the Valley to the Stars was certainly a bit lacking, so a willingness to change things up would be welcome.

Even though this won’t be released (Scandinavia only) until April 1st — which I almost thought was an April Fool’s joke at first — a stream of a track has been made available on her myspace page called “Change of Heart.” Wish we could get a MP3 of this one, but i’m not complaining. It’s a very catchy track with a nice underlying bass groove, which certainly hints at the possibility for more diverse songs that we alluded to earlier.

Stream: El Perro Del Mar :: “Change of Heart”
MP3: El Perro Del Mar :: “God Knows (You Gotta Give To Get)” [from the s/t album]

Tags: El Perro Del Mar