And her last words were “I was only thinking of you”

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

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

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

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.

I’ll stop soon, I promise. As soon as I can breathe again.

and Rob says you love, love, love
and then you die.

and I’m not my perspective
or the lies I’ll tell you every time

and I say there’s trouble when everything is fine
the need to destroy things creeps up on me every time