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My favorite music from 2009 (so far)
In no order:
The Antlers - Hospice ; Akron/Family - Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free ; Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion ; The Rural Alberta Advantage - Hometowns ; Megafaun - Gather, Form & Fly ; Monsters of Folk - Monsters of Folk ; St. Vincent - Actor ; Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
my favorite track from each:
1. "Sylvia" - Hospice
2. "River" - Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free
3. "Bluish" - Merriweather Post Pavilion
4. "In The Summertime" - Hometowns
5. "Impressions of the Past" - Gather, Form & Fly
6. "Temazcal" - Monsters of Folk
7. "Marrow" - Actor
8. "Lisztomania" - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
If you're looking for new music, take a gander at some of these albums. They're all fantastic.
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Running & Thinking
This is a short essay.
When I run, I listen to music. While this is filling up my head, running is clearing it (or so it feels). This is why, besides the health aspects, that running is filed under good.
My reasoning for this is because in my day to day life I keep my brain under lock and key. What gets in gets in because I allow it (most of the time). But it seems when I'm running, I'm so focused on moving my feet and regulating my breathing that my brain's own gates open. This is why the music is good. It inspires me, and words form, and if I'm quick enough I get home and have something to write down.
This is why running = good.
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Hallowe'en pt. II
What you're seeing:
J.Ford / C(Me) / Family / My sis and cousin / Sis and Linus / Sis and cousin / Sis and Linus / Mom, Aunts, Grandma / Big Bad Wolf & Little Red Riding Hood / Lumberjack / Attack / Damn wolves and their finger gestures / Drunk Wolf / AT-ST Walker (best costume I saw)
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Embrace, be humbled by tempations that remain steadfast...
With the passing of summer into fall, I have decided to speak on my summer album.
Each summer an album hits me and kind of just fits into my memories of that summer. This year it is the wonderful, beautiful, lovely, gorgeous Gather, Form & Fly by the great North Carolina band Megafaun.
I saw them live with another great NC band, Bowerbirds. It was one of the best concerts I've been to, and I'm hoping they show up round these parts again.
Anyway, to the album.
It is a mishmash album in all the best ways. You have straight folk songs like "The Longest Day" and folk rockers like "The Fade", which stand out as the two most accessible songs on the album, and would draw anyone that enjoys music in, I would figure. At the first few listens, one might enjoy these songs the most. They're easy to access and they go down like a really great beer. But the more you listen, the better things get. The two real gems on this album, in my humble opinion, are "Impressions of the Past" and "Columns". I literally really saw the greatness in "Columns" about 3 minutes ago.
"Impressions of the Past" is a multi-themed romp that almost introduce 30 seconds of lyrics. But don't ignore the other five minutes. If you really listen, they're wonderful.
"Columns" ends with this great noise section that really makes the tune. Many tunes on this album do that, but Columns really does it well. It's a 3 minute song then you've got 2 minutes of very pleasant ambient noise.
This isn't an album review though; just some of my thoughts on a really really really well made album.
It has sufficiently wrapped itself around me this summer to keep me warm this winter, and I have a feeling it'll hold up just as well (if not better) through the winter months.
Go get this.
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