March 8, 2012

Thanks to Pandora, spent a day or two listening to light, female driven alt rock... Hauntingly beautiful music but mostly sad, struggling, and all too relatable lyrics. Oh, and the Kishi Bashi song is awesome.

Sleep Through Summer - Now Now Every Children

I Won't Be Left - Tegan and Sara

Young Folks - Peter Bjorn and John

Cheated Hearts - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Where is My Mind - Pixies

Don't Rush - Tegan and Sara

Magnetic Hill - Land of Talk

Everyone You Know - Now Now Every Children

Runaway - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Help I'm Alive - Metric

Isolation - Carissa's Wierd

Maps - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Soft Shock - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

All the Rowboats - Regina Spektor

Bright Whites - Kishi Bashi

March 7, 2012

Plenty of things happening. Stress at work. Stress in relationships. Much to think about. Many questions. Few answers. Music is the soundtrack to my thoughts. Here are some things I've liked lately.

We are Young - Fun

Easy Way Out - Gotye

Heavy Metal - White Rabbits

Drifting in and out - Porcelain Raft

Brains - Lower Dens

Broke - Sea of Bees

Don't Sit There - Lucius

Liberal Arts - Hospitality

Never Change - Juliana Barwick

Electric Flame - Thee American Revolution

Swaggs - Mount Carmel

Lion's Den - Dry the River

The Pull - Now Now

Prehistoric - Now Now

Fur Felix - Julia Holter

... and a whole shitload of dubstep. Yes from the likes of Skrillex, Deadmou5, Bassnecter, etc...

(I choose to see this as musical dabbling rather than full scale evolution or reversion. But whatever. It kicks ass and works well with huge doses of caffeine.)

January 31, 2012

More Cleanup, More songs, all terrific, just throwing them out there. Better late than never.

Cheerleader - St. Vincent

One for You and One for Me - Bright Eyes

Bubble - King Creosote and Jon Hopkins

Perth - Bon Iver

Rubber - Yuck

Civilian - Wye Oak

Country Clutter - Delorean

Helplessness Blues - Fleet Foxes

Belong - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

Estate Sale Sign - Mountain Goats

Abducted - Cults

January 30, 2012

Here is some cleanup from listening sessions months ago that never found their way to be published. Many of these were from October 2011 and a pretty tough stretch for me. Several things were ending, and not in a way I liked. I'm not over that, probably won't ever be, but music remains a constant thread through my life. Sometimes it has preserved my sanity and sometimes it has served to give expression to many of the emotions that are too hard to know how to feel about.

Swirly - Ringo Deathstarr

Always Looking - Dum Dum Girls

Vessel - Zola Jesus

Get Right - Megafaun

Montana - Youth Lagoon

Free As A Bird - The Beatles

Ghost Town - First Aid Kit

The Lion's Roar - First Aid Kit

And some from now...

Hair - Lady Gaga

Old Friend - Caveman

Gold - Delayed Trees

Art of Almost - Wilco

Always more to come...

January 3, 2012

I love when a song stops you in your tracks and begs you to go get the album so you can hear more. Sometimes music grows its way into your heart, and sometimes you just know that you are destined to love it for a long time. A lot like people I suppose. And also like people, music comes and goes. Sometimes you're close to it and what it says and means is very real to you, and other times there is distance. I always love when music closes the distance and speaks directly to my soul. (again - like people)

You want the Candy - The Raveonettes

Cruel - St Vincent

Every Teardrop is a Waterfall - Coldplay

Teeth - Lady Gaga

There are always more, but I wanted to throw a few songs up and I'll get back to it and hopefully post sooner than later.

September 28, 2011 (Part B)

Couldn't help but jot down a few more as they came across. There's so much good music out there, and I only have the time and ability to learn a small amount of it, so when I hear it I want to make note of it right away.

Silence - Herzog

Tongue Tied - Grouplove

Begin to Begin - REM

Crystal Meth Christian - Teddybears

Kids - Wilderness

Act on Impulse - We Were Promised Jetpacks

The Sea - Exit Music

Halfway - Milagres

September 28, 2011

Wow. I don't do this enough. Music lately has ended up on the back burner as I focus on getting through the rest of life, something that has been going mostly ok. My belief though is that music can help you through the ups and downs of life, and I need to take the time for music, for thinking, and for writing much more than I have recently. Anyway, here are a few songs, new to me, that I have enjoyed. Thanks again to NPR's All Songs Considered.

Home - Lisa Hannigan

Come to Mary - Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter

Hysterical - Clap your Hands Say Yeah

By Your Hand - Los Campesinos

Chair - Big Deal

Twins - Gem Club

Video Games - Lana Del Rey

Mona Lisa - Atlas Sound

Terra Incognita - Atlas Sound

It's Real - Real Estate

My Day - Cosmo Jarvis

Keep Time - Gauntlet Hair

Replicate - Fanfarlo