Cole's "Nature Boy" (no relation to the Nick Cave song, or the Sea and Cake song) has been probably one of the hallowed crooner's most visible tracks in recent years-- covered by My Brightest Diamond for the I'll Stay 'Til After Christmas comp last year, and popularized for millions who may not have known there was a Nat King Cole version via Mo...

Videos added to the Pitchfork.tv archives today are all over the damn place, from the VCR-as-memory-machine whimsy of the Books' "If Not Now, Whenever" to modern shapes and colors of the Sea and Cake's cover of David Bowie's "Sound & Vision" to more recent videos by +/- and Deerhoof. Clips by Kazi (ft. Madlib), Harlem, the Last Shadow Pu...

Videos added to the Pitchfork.tv archive this week include a few newer ones. The clip for Anathallo's "Bells", a song from their upcoming album on Anticon, begins with a pattern of the titular sounds and sets them flashes of color in a dark space. Centro-Matic performs "Rat Patrol and DJs" on a gritty porch, and then Drag City band Faun Fables g...

The Sea and Cake are the definition of consistent and singular: They don't sound like anyone else, they're too smart and careful to make a truly bad record, and they're comfortable with the existing range of possibilities of the project. And this is their best record in over a decade. [Recommended]read more

SCORE!? You can say that again. The brass at Merge Records have revealed quite a few more of the folks laying covers and remixes of their favorite Merge catalog classics on subscribers to the label's 20th anniversary SCORE! box set series-- which, to recap, is due to include 14 celeb-curated comps of Merge favorites, a covers disc, a remix colle...