The Eraser by Thom Yorke (2006)

Just a quick note. Please listen to Thom Yorke's The Eraser. More than once. It will change your perspective on music.

The Eraser - Thom Yorke

www.theeraser.net

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I haven't forgotten about the blog. I've just been waiting for more meaningful music to really move me. Once that happens I'll post again. I have a few contenders. Hope you're enjoying the weather!

Lafcadio by As Tall As Lions (2004)

Acrobat - As Tall As Lions

This band, I've mentioned them before, really does blow my mind. They give me close to that new being-in-love feeling. Which I guess is what I mainly look for in a band, something I didn't realize until recently. My favorite all-time bands, Radiohead, Death Cab for Cutie, As Tall As Lions, and Animal Collective all renew feelings I felt back when I was 15 and 16, when I thought I knew who I'd spend the rest of my life with and when I thought everything was going to be perfect from then on. Anyone over 20 knows it doesn't work out like that. But everyone has felt that feeling at some point. It's a beautiful thing, and the only way those feelings can be manifested is through the graceful art of music. Shakespeare said "if music be the food of love, play on", and couldn't have been more right.


Nowadays, with a war raging on that no one is talking about, people starving all over the world and a planet being taken over by the mega-wealthy, music is the only escape we have. Whether it be comedic like Flight of the Conchords or heart-melting like As Tall As Lions, no music is "wrong", ever. No person's music taste is better than another's.

I mean think about it, we are a species that always falls back onto music. Does any other species dance, or move to rhythm, or react to melodies to the extent humans do, or at all?

Sometimes I really believe we were meant to just play music and learn to love through that music, and fuck all the rest. I mean, if we didn't know that we could have a warm house, a clean, soft bed, and deliciously unhealthy fast food, would we miss it? If all we had was music and our bodies, would we be better off? Video related.


Track Listing:

1. Break Blossom
2. 96 Heartbeats
3. Silhouettes/Silhouetting
4. The Carousel
5. Acrobat
6. Why We Cry At Movies
7. If I'm Not Out Burning
8. My Glowing Morning Dreams
9. A Ghost In Drag
10. Blowing Out A Wish
11. Goodnite, Noises Everywhere

www.myspace.com/astallaslions

Enjoy

Songs of Shame by Woods (2009)

This is some pretty awesome spring music here. This band has released 2 other albums; At Rear House (2007), and How to Survive In-In the Woods (2007). They're last.fm profile describes them as an "acid/strange/psych folk rock band based out of Brooklyn, New York." I would also describe them as Lo-Fi, for sure, as the recording style is fuzzy and sounds like they are playing just for you, which is a great quality to have in these days of perfectly pristine production. I haven't heard the aforementioned other two records, but I can't wait to.

Favorite song so far: "Rain On". Put simply: this is a very, very pretty collection of songs.

Here is "The Number", another great track:

The Number - Woods

Track Listing:

1. To Clean
2. The Hold
3. The Number
4. September With Pete
5. Down This Road
6. Military Madness
7. Born To Lose
8. Echo Lake
9. Rain On
10. Gypsy Hand
11. Where And What Are You?
    

www.myspace.com/woodsfamilyband

Enjoy!

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K.