Just some late-night-jamming. One of my favorite dirty songs of all time. And you gotta love those blown-out keys.
Caught this song on Sirius/XM driving in my car the other day. I hadn't really paid much attention to Laura Marling. Until now. This weary, old-soul voice hooked me in. And frankly, I'd like to think that she's singing about our cat, Sophia, but either way, this song is making me pay attention to her new album. Which so far is not too shabby, though this is the jam that really gets me.
Possibly the catchiest song I've heard in quite awhile. Good stuff. And I'm predicting here and now that this song has a 10:1 chance of ending up in a commercial or indie film shortly. Oh boy.
In a new segment I'm calling "Lost & Found", I'll be sharing songs that I once had really loved that got lost to the ages for a bit, only to be rediscovered again.
For the first installment, we're going back to 1998 when I was the music director and a DJ at KPSU radio (1450 AM on your dial) at Portland State University. My radio show called "Empty Space & Points Of Light" (based off of a Jeanette Winterson quote from her novel, Sexing The Cherry) was on Monday nights from 6 - 8PM and this was a track from a band called Push Kings that I'd play with a fair frequency. Mostly because it always cheered me up. So here you go: an oldie and goodie, late '90s indie pop style:
http://www.allmusic.com/album/r591996
http://bluehydrangeas.wordpress.com/2006/12/07/jeanette-winterson/
“The Hopi, an Indian tribe, have a language as sophisticated as ours, but no tenses for past, present and future. The division does not exist. What does this say about time?
Matter, that thing the most solid and the well-known, which you are holding in your hands and which makes up your body, is now known to be mostly empty space. Empty space and points of light. What does this say about the reality of the world?”
Starting the weekend out right by listening to my recent fave jam from Joe Goddard (Hot Chip), which is the B-side from his most recent 12" called Gabriel on DFA Records.
Getting all blissed out with I Break Horses. Good way to start the week. The whole album is beautiful. Check out the first track:
Been really warming up to the new Blood Orange album. Check this jam out:
I've still been just swamped with work lately, so I haven't posted very much.
But my friend Brian over at Kranky just sent me this new album promo from a new band called A Winged Victory For the Sullen, which is the first installment of the new collaboration between Stars of the Lid member Adam Wiltzie and composer Dustin OʼHalloran. The whole album is amazing and at times beautiful, sad, gentle, calming.
This song in particular was created in memory of the untimely passing of Mark Linkous (Sparklehorse).
Check it.
Been in the real thick of it with work for the last few weeks, so I haven't much time to listen to music or post, but when I have had some time, I've mostly been listening to all the recent Mississippi Records releases, as well as this lovely Brooklyn band, Widowspeak.
Check out the first track of their new eponymous album on Captured Tracks:
Though it's been out for a little bit, I'm just lately getting into Hauschka's latest album.
It's great little avant-garde/experimental piano playfulness gets my pick of "song of the day from album of the week". Check it.
