Fujiya & Miyagi, courtesy. I was clearly in a cinematic mood this week. Unloved has the soundtrack of our lives, while Tim Sheinman has the perfect soundscape of a song. Tripping Jupiter literally created a film in its video with a story of a song. And of course, we…

Hot Chip member Alexis Taylor stretches his instrumental stylings across indietronica through that band and his improvisational rock through About Group. But with his new solo album, Beautiful Thing, Taylor makes quite the impression in the synth-pop space. Beautiful Thing Alexis Taylor April 20 Beautiful Thing opens with a song that pays homage to Phil…