Songbird
Aug
30
You Can Hide The Way You Make Us Glow
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I was driving home this evening while the sun was setting and Beach House shuffled on with all of their glorious dream-pop and I was at peace. This album came out back at the beginning of the year… It is a one of their best albums to date. echo.
mp3:Â Take Care
Teen Dream 2010 (Sub Pop)
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Aug
25
We Had Our Doubts
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Just the music tonight, I do believe that is all we need.
mp3:Â The Orchard
The Orchard 2010 (Barsuk)
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Aug
19
You Fill The World With Music
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It has been unbearably hot this week, my “unbearably hot” is anything over 80 degrees. How can I complain about that you may ask? Well, we have been spoiled rotten, the weather in Southern California has been beautifully mild for the summer and I dig that. I do not dig the heat however, and I turn into the Wicked Witch of the West bitch mode all the way. Last night was the worse of it, so hot that I couldn’t even sleep with a fan blowing directly on me. The cherry was the mosquito sucking my blood in 3 different spots one of them being my cheek! Well I was not having it, I jumped out of bed and flipped on the lights and hunted that mosquito like the vampire it is. Needless to say there is a tiny little stain on my wall… The mosquito and the flea are the two insects I have no problem killing, probably because they make me so uncomfortable. I have terrible reactions to bites, my flea bites are the size of a normal mosquito bite and my mosquito bites are just down right swollen and painful. Not a pretty sight.
Thank goodness tonight it is a lot cooler. There is a beautiful breeze flowing through the windows, quite pleasing. I have been listening to Skybox lately, a Chicago based band, who make groovy rock melodies mixed with just the right amount of fun pop. They are currently touring all over this nation.
mp3: Light
Morning After Cuts – Explicit Lyrics 2010 (Self Released)
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Aug
3
We’re Still Screaming
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A little depressed… Feeling quite defeated.
This is why I have been very distant from my blog, just dealing with a bunch of shit basically.
I can always find refuge in the music…
The new Arcade Fire came out today, I have been listening to it non-stop but not from a leaked copy. :-)
Their music grows on me… But on this album I pretty much loved it instantly, the topics the songs touch upon really resonate with how I am feeling at this time in my life. I feel like I have failed at certain dreams I once had, wondering where I actually want to take this life of mine and still figuring out who I am. These are common emotions and doubts and I think Arcade Fire did a wonderful job of conveying them in their music. Highly recommended.
mp3:Â The Suburbs
The Suburbs 2010 (Merge Records)
Aug
1
Here We Are Again
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Once again… Days later. I have so much to share and I am so very behind. But I will get to it all :-)
Thank goodness for music.
mp3: Rain (Setting Out In Leaf Boat)
My Room in the Trees 2010 (Badman Recording Co.)
Jul
22
Something Gorgeous
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I have fallen in love with Strand Of Oaks…
The biography on the man behind the name, Timothy Showalter makes your heart ache. He pours that all into beautifully chilling songs that are real and honest.
Take notice.
Also, check out his 2009 album Leave Ruin.
mp3:Â Kill Dragon
Pope Killdragon 2010 (eMusic Selects)
Jul
19
Coming Soon
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I will have a new post tomorrow all about the lovely concert I saw over the weekend. Until then. xx
Jul
8
Only A Song
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I like this album, beautiful folk.
mp3:Â Only A Song
Ben Sollee and Daniel Martin Moore
Dear Companion 2010 (Sub Pop)
I wouldn’t make a sound if I wasn’t so angry.
I wouldn’t be around if it wasn’t so far to go.
I wouldn’t keep on if there wasn’t something worth keepin’.
I want to believe that this mountain can be moved.
But this is only a song, it can’t change the world.I get a little scared when I’m driving through the ghetto.
There’s a part of me that wants to hide, there’s a part of me that wants to move in.
Cuz even though I, I grew up in the suburbs
I didn’t really grow until I learned how so many others lived.
But this is only a song, it can’t change the world.I’m digging, digging deep in myself
But who needs a shovel when you have a little boy like mine.
This ain’t the world that I want to give him
People racing around in cars and cities you cant even walk across.
But this is only a song, it can’t change the world.I been thinkin’ about providence and craving a root beer float.
I didn’t make these rules but it’s come time for us to row this boat.
And on the horizon, I see windmills sprouting up in rows.
There’s young folks farming and a few that’re gonna vote.
But this is only a song, it can’t change the world.So I try, why even sing at all?
I picture the Harlem Globetrotters dancing like mosquitos with a basketball.
Cuz there is beauty in freedom.
And folks like me, came over on boats, flew in on planes, crawled under fences, and fought wars, just to find a place to be free.
But this is only a song, it can’t change the world.
This is only a song, it can’t change the world.
This is only a song, it can’t change the world.
Jul
6
Sails Set Low Tonight
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Must shake this day off.
It sucked. I have stronger words but lets just leave it at that…
I have been trying to go to my zen place all day but it has not been working. I don’t know if it is just the going back to work after a long weekend thing or that I am just flat out of sorts. Tonight I need something familiar and comforting. Amy Millan can always soothe my soul. Her 2009 full length solo album is beautiful from beginning to end and just what I needed to help me find a bit peace of tonight. No Music, No Life.
Goodnight xx
Tomorrow is a new day.
mp3:Â Low Sail
Masters Of Burial 2009 (Arts & Crafts)
Jul
1
Living For You
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I really had a rough time figuring out what the heck I was going to share tonight… Nothing was striking my fancy until I remembered Damien Jurado’s new album, Saint Bartlett. The music is richer than his previous work and you just want to sit back and take it all in.
Good night. xx
p.s. it is the first day of July, which means my birthday is in exactly 17 days.
mp3:Â Rachel & Cali
Saint Bartlett 2010 (Secretly Canadian)
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