Santigold: embracing the absurdity of current music consumption

February 27, 2016 6:30 PM

Santigold is back with her third album, 99¢ (YT playlist), omnivorous pop in a post-genre age. She's been promoting the album throughout 2015, and enjoying the process this time around, trying to incorporate some of the joy from her son, Radek. She's been bending genres since her self-titled debut album, but this time around she's in a different place from her prior album, Master of My Make-Believe, which was fit for the dystopian end of the Age of Aquarius ... crackling with discontent, with a powerful cover designed by Kehinde Wiley (previously).

Videos from each album:

- 99¢ (all lyrics on Genius)-
* Can't Get Enough of Myself (dot webcam) -- an interactive video that utilizes your webcam
* Who Be Lovin' Me ft ILOVEMAKONNEN
* Chasing Shadows

- Master of My Make-Believe (making the cover / all lyrics on Genius) -
* Big Mouth
* Disparate Youth
* The Keepers (behind the scenes)

- Santogold/Santigold* (all lyrics on Genius) -
* L.E.S Artistes (making the video, Santigold and Mark Ronson at the L.E.S Artistes video shoot)
* Creator
* Lights Out

* Santigold was first Santogold, until the real Santo Gold reclaimed his name. "I don't like my name being stole'd, spent millions on my name, Santo Gold, 'cause I'm the real Santo Gold" (previously)

posted by filthy light thief (7 comments total)

The interactive video for "Can't Get Enough of Myself" was too powerful for my sad little laptop, and if you're like me and just want to see the video, the best I could find was downloading the 94mb source video, which includes some a lot of black space and occasional fields that are linked to the webcam images.

(And yes, .webcam is a real Top Level Domain)
posted by filthy light thief at 6:33 PM on February 27, 2016

Santigold is fantastic and I've always loved her music. Definitely need to check this one out!
posted by flatluigi at 6:57 PM on February 27, 2016

This is one of my favorite things of all the internets

That being said, I dig her new stuff. It aligns nicely with the music thread the other day.
posted by LuckyMonkey21 at 7:54 PM on February 27, 2016 [2 favorites]

Yesss I've been overplaying Chasing Shadows and waiting for the rest of this album. Now I'm overplaying All I Got, new favorite song though Banshee comes close.
posted by drinkyclown at 8:07 PM on February 27, 2016

Yesss, Santigold is so great. If you get a chance to see her live, go - she puts on a great show.
posted by Fig at 5:15 AM on February 28, 2016

Santigold is like my very first memory of Metafilter. One sec... there it is.
posted by indubitable at 7:31 PM on February 28, 2016

I was just listening to Santogold's debut on google play (playing with a chromecast audio) yesterday, and wondering what had become of her. I completely missed her second album.

Thanks for this.
posted by gryftir at 1:18 AM on February 29, 2016