“Good Night Laura” by Spoon off their upcoming album Transference.
Maybe it’s weird that the song I like the most off this album is the one not like the others? Short and sweet.
Generator ^ First Floor by Freelance Whales on “Weathervanes”
Just listen!
There’s also a ^ Second Floor that is also amazing, look for it! I am in love with these songs.
“Ghost Mouth” by Girls on Album.
My apologies for the long hiatus, my rather vast music collection was sucked into a black hole and I had to spend a month or two crying about it and trying to piece it back together. It is now leaner, meaner, and at the very least less imposing to my friends and their mouse-wheel fingers when they are looking for something to listen to.
In any case, this is a pretty wonderful little album, very simple and with nothing insanely out of the ordinary or avant garde and I think that’s actually what makes it stand out against all the weirdness that is starting to become expected.
I’m going to eat even more Ben & Jerry’s ice cream now. Uh oh.
“Ben & Jerry’s is temporarily renaming popular ‘Chubby Hubby’ ice cream ‘Hubby Hubby’ beginning today to celebrate the start of legalized gay marriage in its home state of Vermont.
‘The legalization of marriage for gay and lesbian couples in Vermont is certainly a step in the right direction, and something worth celebrating with peace, love - and plenty of ice cream,’ Ben & Jerry’s CEO Walt Freese said in announcing the sugary switch.”
“Genesis 30:3” from The Mountain Goats’ upcoming album The Life of the World to Come
I love The Mounain Goats. I have 43 albums (LPs/EPs etc etc.) by them. And this is a rather strange album because of how many songs on it aren’t charged with their furiously neurotic energy. There are a lot of quiet songs, and I picked one of the quiet ones at random because trying to decide what song I like best off a Mountain Goats album is like telling me to choose between ten pieces of candy that are differently flavored yet equally delicious.
I’ll have a new song chosen and up tomorrow off the upcoming Volcano Choir album.
Creekmouth by DM Stith on Heavy Ghost.
In the vein of Bon Iver, but more like Sufjan Stevens’s evil twin.
Playlist of the Week (and then some): Songs in Rain & Snow
This is a mostly instrumental mix— music for rainy days, sitting inside and feeling rather melancholic and thoughtful.
Tracklisting:
Download here.
As with the last playlist, you’ll have to order the tracks yourself.
A small disclaimer: Gamelan is a live recording— it has never been recorded privately so there was no other option. There’s very little audience noise except at about 4:04 when the song actually ends and then it’s about 30 seconds of applause. I put it at the end partly because of this. You should be able to tweak the stop time of the song in iTunes if that’s your player of choice, otherwise I’m not sure if there’s a fix.
“Sweet Talk” by Spiritualized on Songs in A&E.
Spiritualized is Jay Spaceman of the Spacemen 3, a band which sort of sparked the minimalist psychadelica sound that would eventually evolve into shoegaze. This album Songs in A&E is not a reference to keys, but a reference to the Accidents & Emergencies ward of the hospital. Between 2003 and 2008 Jay nearly died of double pneumonia, and the songs were written before during and after this health battle.
This album was one of my absolute favorites of 2008, and this is me trying to make sure it didn’t slip under anyone’s radar.
