LOVE IT
Lately, we've been listening to music in the living room, as a family.
What works best:
- not-weird music
- pop music
- bounce
- country
- Beatles
This song is 3/5 (v. impressive) of the above:
And this song, while better suited for an introspective break than partytime, sounds uncannily like B+A faves the Foundry Field Recordings!
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Please help name my bike! I just restored/rebuilt her.
When I'm Coming Down
Why, why, why hasn't there been more discussion of the new Bright Eyes album? Maybe it's our attention span. Or maybe nobody listened all the way through, because the last track is fi-i-ine. Best Bright Eyes yet.
I didn't realize how badly I wanted to hear new Okkervil River until the first single from The Stage Names was proffered. I'm giddy!
I think, more than anything, I'm in love with the strain in Will Sheff's voice.
The Click Wheel Five IV
Today's Click Wheel Five comes as a response to an unstoppable run of, like, twenty songs that a friend pulled off yesterday with her iPod on shuffle. I'm scared.
I don't have to defend any Cash song that comes up, and certainly not this one. Off to a good start.
I swear this one's come up before. Kill The Moonlight is my Spoon of choice, and I think "Stay Don't Go" kinda sums it up: a spare, swaggering pulse of a song.
It's hard to think of this (good) song in the context of purely a song, and not goofy hair or Grand Theft or stupid dance parties. Was anybody who references this song even alive when it was released?
Back on top with Favela Booty Beats, baby!
I love to hear an unknown band that plays songs like they should be classics. And, if life was fair, this would be a classic.
Dare I go for more?
I really don't like this. I guess that's why I only do five.
Outside
I loved Apologies to the Queen Mary because it went for the throat. It was upset and animalistic, at its best when it was most concise. I had a hunch then, but after getting a taste of Sunset Rubdown and now Handsome Furs I can say it was Dan Boeckner who was responsible for the most affecting (to me) parts of Wolf Parade.
There's a line in Wolf Parade's "Same Ghost Every Night":
I go out walking
Just to find my own breath, my own breath
Through the pines
echoed here in the wonderful "Snakes on the Ladder":
I go out walking
My own feet
And I might sing,
'Don't bury me'
That right there is exactly it, the beating heart and the unsettled mind. Enjoy.
Handsome Furs' Plague Park is out May 22 on Sub Pop.
