Music. All of it.
Jan 19

Dear Tumblog what am I going to do with you?

Son Volt

Being Head of Music for freshair.org.uk - even just for six months - was completely exhausting. I learned a lot about the music industry, but mainly I learned that forced listening to music means you don’t find things that you enjoy. 

Have some Son Volt - probably the best folk/country band that I can think of at the moment. 

Son Volt - Dynamite

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Jan 6

It took me a while to finally kick myself into gear about listening to Kurt Vile, after missing a series of concerts he was playing at festivals, but I finally have, and am now wondering why I didn’t earlier. 

Jesus Fever was nominated by Pitchfork as a top song of 2011, for good reason. Mr. Vile’s croning layered over the intricate yet easy going guitar play is an absolute pleasure to listen to. 

Kurt Vile - Jesus Fever
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Dec 19

Here’s Owen Pallett (Final Fantasy) covering Caribou’s Odessa. It’s incredibly well done. 
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Nov 29

Was just linked to this album, and felt like I haven’t done enough for this blog in a long long time. 
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Nov 17

Saw these guys two nights ago, they were phenomenal. 
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Nov 6

Flying Lotus - Kill Your Co-Workers
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Oct 10

The trailer for the documentary about Phoenix. 
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Sep 29

Here’s the first single from a Firefly themed mixtape.

Adam WarRock & Mikal kHill “Mal” - The Browncoat Mixtape

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Sep 28

I didn’t actually really know about this band until in one day a friend heartily recommended the new album and made me listen to a song off it, and I saw that The Skinny gave it a five star rating. That type of enthusiasm doesn’t come often, and I went ahead and checked them out. 

Everyone I Know - Moth & The Mirror
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Sep 27

Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost

Girls’ second full length album, and third release that I’ve listened to - Father, Son, Holy Ghost - is, as an album, a pop masterpiece.

It starts off with the remarkably upbeat “Honey Bunny”, the first song of the album that came with a video shortly after the album’s release, a song about love which quickly turns, well, awkward when suddenly the song slows down Christopher Owens seems to start talking about his mother.

It’s this kind of lyricism and song writing that have made Girls stand out to me. Owens’ Costelloesque writing style captured my attention on The Broken Dreams Club EP, and their acoustic-style songs backed up by ephemeral haze that can burst into a power chorus at any moment is something that isn’t missing from Father, Son, Holy Ghost.

Whilst The Broken Dreams Club EP did lend itself to more of that sonic experimentation, Father, Son, Holy Ghost sticks closer to what Album delivered - better defined, catchy, pop songs that seem incredibly familiar (Girls do this so well that the first time I listened to The Broken Dreams Club EP I was convinced the first song - “Thee Oh So Protective One” - was a Costello cover). Like any of the other Girls albums though, it did take a couple of spins before I was completely won over.

But what Girls do they do extremely well. A tendency to break up songs into segments that will have you anticipating that change in future listens is what makes listening to this album so worth-wile. A definite contender for album of the year.

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