Still getting through my stash of records I picked up at Other Music on my recent trip to NYC.
Feeling the French vibe right now, particularly George Brassens and this song,
which I am predicting now, will likely end up in the next Wes Anderson film.
Oh, also, this song, considered pornographic, was banned at one point in time.
Listening to Moby's new album at the moment, which I am, somewhat surprisingly, digging.
When I first started working at Wieden + Kennedy in January 2000, Moby's album, Play, was massively over-referenced in meetings and creative ideas at the time, and accordingly, I had a very intense & adverse reaction to it.
That said, and what's kind of funny to me, is that he seems to keep putting out some fairly lovely, weird, washy music, which if I can put bad advertising ideas aside for the moment, I actually kind of like what I'm hearing.
And this new album is no exception.
Have a listen to this jam:
Plus, you can stream the whole album here: http://www.moby.com/
Song of the day from album of the week.
I really love all my music memories that revolve around the music of The Sea And Cake: summertime 1994 - as a young fella, living in Milwaukee, but nosing around Chicago; summertime 1997 - in Portland, living in a musical household with all my friends, hanging out, being creative slackers; and again, summertime 2011 - back in Chicago, this time with my lovely wife and making new friends.
The Sea And Cake has always felt timeless/out of time to me.
Love this about them.
Here's to warm, happy days again.
Finally.
Just a little shout-out to my new jam - adding to my collection of bikes - a 2011 Trek Belleville.
Aside from being pretty and a great/functional commuter, it's actually super green (see this story: http://bit.ly/lvldSE).
I've also since put a lovely beat-up Brooks saddle on it, though this picture is before I did that, right after I bought it and rode it home.
http://www.humankinetics.com/excerpts/excerpts/bicycling-offers-many-benefits
http://frenchkissrecords.com/band/records/no_color/
http://www.dodosmusic.net/
What do you get when you take members of Hot Chip + Spiritualized + This Heat and have them record a full album over the course of one day at Abbey Road?
You get the song of the day from album of the week.
Loving this:
http://www.dominorecordco.com/uk/albums/21-01-11/start-and-complete
Solid/accurate review on Pitchfork too:
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/15281-badlands/
