just one of those days

August 2, 2011 | Filed Under Music | Leave a Comment

GOD. DAMN. DAMARIS!

July 28, 2011 | Filed Under Music | Leave a Comment

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.