The video is NSFW, just FYI.

The new Girl Talk album, Feed the Animals, is out. I know I’m late on this, but I’ve been super busy the last 4-5 days. You can buy it at Illegal Art for any price you choose. He’s doing a similar thing to Radiohead and NIN.

The album is good, not quite as fresh feeling after Night Ripper, but good nonetheless. Worth checking it out if you appreciate this sort of thing.

My favorite track is this one (the video is boring so it’s second):

(audio is NSFW, but the video is just the album cover, which is).

If you have a MySpace account, can you head over to the Girl Talk profile and try and download the track “Pure Magic” from the music player? The download link is enabled but I keep timing out trying to receive the file from mp3download.myspace.com. It’s annoying, and it’s been like this for weeks now.

Via a friend via AW, I discovered Girl Talk today. You must listen to this album. Funny, clever, and good music. Go get it. For the local peeps, he’s playing at Toad’s Place in New Haven in 2 weeks.

What makes his stuff cool is that it’s entirely composed of short samples of a bunch of different songs blended together into a new composition. Some of the combinations are just surprising and trying to identify songs is part of the fun. On top of that, hearing an 80s track overlaid with a hip hop track from 2007 or a remake of an old song next to the original just is a cool experience. This guy is talented.

Update: By “this album” I mean Night Ripper. Oops.