bad idea no. 1
December 11, 2011 | Filed Under Music, Random | Leave a Comment
listening to Fitzcarraldo in the library
And her last words were “I was only thinking of you”
the day they release a new album might be the day I officially collapse from the weight of it all
November 14, 2011 | Filed Under Music | Leave a Comment
what I wouldn’t do..
October 2, 2011 | Filed Under Music | Leave a Comment
this is physically painful in every way possible
New* music is kicking my behind quite firmly right now
September 9, 2011 | Filed Under Music | Leave a Comment
*new to me, not necessarily new to you. so shush.
First Aid Kit – The Big Black And The Blue
Heavy Storm
But she knew deep down that she only wished that time would come back
Paul Dempsey – Everything Is True
Take Us To Your Leader
Now this is not funny.
The shortest time feels like the longest time.
It’s surely a dream.
Or I’m just an unreliable witness to everything.
Fionn Regan – 100 Acres Of Sycamore
North Star Lover
She shifts her weight to the other foot
Asks me how deep I’d like the cut
Sharpening her words
Veronica Maggio – Satan I Gatan
Snälla Bli Min
Du tar bort min hand ifrån din arm och flyttar bort
Ingenting jag säger spelar längre någon roll
Åh, ställer mig i hallen tills jag fattar vad som hänt
Får jag ens ha kvar dig som min vän?
Laura Marling – A Creature I Don’t Know
Night After Night
He longs for the answers, as all of us must
He longs for the woman who will conquer his lust
He screams in the night, I scream in the day
He weeps in the evening and lies naked and prays
’cause one thing is for sure – we’re gonna get what we deserve
August 24, 2011 | Filed Under Music | Leave a Comment
now, this is not funny
the shortest time feels like the longest time
it’s surely a dream
or I’m just an unreliable witness to everything
Paul Dempsey – Take Us To Your Leader
mer än nånting.
July 11, 2011 | Filed Under Music, Random | Leave a Comment
och fast vi båda vill
mer än nånting annat
så står det skrivet i pannan att man väcker en ångest när man släcker en annan
how to write too many words about something that is completely not related to the essay I need to finish before Saturday. (or a case study in why I love men who sometimes scream in their songs)
April 28, 2011 | Filed Under Music | Leave a Comment
So, yesterday I acquired two new albums from two of my favourite bands, and I think they are respectively the best and the second best albums to come out this year so far, but let’s now talk about them in reverse order and for slightly different reasons.
I like Guillemots. Quite a bit. I also think that the singer Fyfe Dangerfield (SERIOUSLY awesome name. I would totally marry him just to be Mrs. Dangerfield. Noone would mess with you if your name was Dangerfield, I just know it) has one of the most interesting, expressive, and all around awesome voices in music today.
Anyways, their new album is called Walk The River, and it is really good. It’s got some great songs, and by listening to it very loudly I effectively managed to forget almost everything that was bothering me right at that moment (which was more than a few things, but that’s a different story) and just get washed over, while doing some sort of sedentary disco dance. Brilliant.
However, as I am still me, there was one song that caught my attention more than any of the other ones. Why, you ask? Listen, and guess (hint: if you read the title you might be able to figure out the answer)
Guillemots – Vermillion
Yes, I do admit that that’s not quite the Glen Hansard style of screaming where you’re pretty sure he’s just had his heart cut out and eaten by an evil she-devil (which does rank pretty damn high on my kryptonite-scale), and I can’t even explain why this works so for me. It’s something about the way he half shouts the ‘play on’ that just triggers something within me. I’m sure it’s purely technical and that there are just certain frequencies that make me go all weak and lovey, but oh I love this.
An even better example of getting me all weak and lovey by passionately conveying certain lines of music to me would be the second example here.
There is something about Fleet Foxes that just makes me completely theirs no matter what they do, it’s probably the way their voices blend together that triggers the savage within me, but again, straying from the subject.
Maybe not my favourite song off their new album (which is seriously absolutely incredible, go listen), but the first part of it, where he really, really pushes those first line of the chorus out..
Fleet Foxes – The Shrine / An Argument
Yeah, so you think I’m exaggerating when I say that I want everyone to start doing this because it might leave me in a permanent state of bliss..
I’m not.
I’ve just gone all weak again from listening through that song again.
This was a very good way of distracting myself from work for a little while.