Viet Cong
http://vietcong.bandcamp.com/track/throw-it-away Reminiscing a bit...
Deerhoof FTW
OK, one more:
So Nier was one of those things where I got it for $5, thought what the fuck is this. Then I played it, and the whole time wondered: seriously, what the fuck is this. Then I finished it and thought what in the actual fuck did I just play. Then I went and immediately bought the soundtrack right afterwards. Because even though I still have no idea what Nier was supposed to be about, I know that it sounded really nice. Edit: Oh apparently I'm supposed to play it twice to understand everything. Okay then.
I listened to Foxygen's new album ...And Star Power and veen, I have to say that I wasn't immediately that in to it. I was able to listen to the full album uninterrupted and it never grabbed hold of me, that said it never repelled me either. However, I have started listening again and I'm now beginning to feel it. Their last album was immediately a favorite of mine. The songs on it felt familiar, like old friends I was rediscovering. I don't have this on their new one at all. I gather that they see it as a concept album and I have just read that their premise was that the album transitions midway through to a band called "Star Power" playing instead of Foxygen. A very Sgt Pepper idea, but Pepper had songs. There are definitely some tracks on here that I enjoyed but nothing like their previous offering. I will give this some more listens in hopes that I continue to discover nuance etc, something that actually seems likely given my second listen. Some of my favorite albums have grown on me over time, my hope is that this is the case with ...And Star Power because I do dig this band. What do you think?
Will have to give this a listen. Not being too familiar with their sound, I imagine in a dream that this new stuff, being my introduction, will be loved by me as much as the other is for you. We never forget our first crush. Funny how a new album from an old band becomes more difficult to integrate. How do artists grow when we continue to love their former cuteness? Is reinvention a requirement? Is irrelevance inevitable? Are our expectations getting the best of us?
So true. So incredibly true. The prior familiarity is inevitably a bad thing. I've often wondered if this exact phenomenon is why I basically only like entire discographies of bands that folded before I was born and can reliably graph my favorite albums by bands in correlation with the order I found them.Funny how a new album from an old band becomes more difficult to integrate.
Sonny Rollins - St Thomas
(Saxophone Colossus is the only cd in my car, my local NPR affiliate has been having a fund drive, and I often forget the cable for my data port.) Nina Simone - Here Comes the Sun
(just discovered this cover very recently.)
Been on a bit of a James Taylor kick lately I love Cat Stevens Françoise Hardy too
http://www.allmusic.com/album/two-steps-from-the-blues-mw0000198466 Bobby Blue Bland.
Sometimes you encounter music at just the right point in your life where it will have an incredibly strong impact on you. That happened to me this past week. I was listening to a radio show based out of Scotland, of all places, and heard a guy from Virginia called Car Seat Headrest (now living in Seattle), and was blow away. The songs We Can't Afford (Your Depression Anymore) and Don't Remind Me are two songs that are almost like they were written specifically for me, specifically for this point in my life. That album is about all I've been listening to this week.
Amsterdam - Gregory Alan Isakov Just a beautiful stop-animation video and Hey Rosetta!'s new album "Second Sight"