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Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Friday, April 26, 2013
Sunday, May 20, 2012
... it's a hundred seven degrees...
... going tumblr crazy and downloading some seriously awesome music...
...currently on repeat - "107 Degrees" by Citizen Cope from The Lincoln Lawyer and Emil Sande's AMAZING album "Our Version Of Events"...
x x x
Thursday, March 22, 2012
... i've never been so high...
...beyond amazing...
... Bon Iver covering Anais Mitchell's "Coming Down" on Like A Version on Triple J...
xxx
Monday, March 5, 2012
...can we get much higher...
... busy busy week ahead...... two work functions - one fun, the other possibly not so fun...
... also seing the AMAZING Bon Iver on Thursday night... there are not enough words to describe how excited I am about this...
... hope everyone is making it through their Monday's ok...
xx
Thursday, January 19, 2012
...my thoughts exactly...
The folks over at Pitchfork have put together a list of the Top 100 Tracks of 2011.
( you can see the full list here)
Quite possibly my favourite song of all time, Bon Iver's "Holcene" came in at #2 and here is what they had to say about it:
I had never knowingly heard a Bon Iver song until this past summer. I hadn't avoided Justin Vernon's music; I just never sought it out. I'd read about the cabin in the woods, and that was enough to suggest that it probably wasn't for me. Then, one night in July, driving around Portland, Oregon, shuttling another load of boxes between my mom's old house and her new assisted-living home, I found myself transfixed by an unfamiliar falsetto streaming from the speakers of my rental car, faltering and fumbling, a mirror of my own emotions.
"Holocene", the song that got me, has remained moving in the months since, in moods sunny and stoic as well as worn out and wrung dry. Beneath the surface beauty of the chiming guitars and close harmonies, far more ambivalent tensions are at play-- pedal steel sighing against muted vibraphones, weary handclaps, a quiet squall of clarinets. The rising and falling chord changes create a sense of motion that develops throughout the whole song, a tide-like ebb and flow that ends with an abrupt denouement, so swift it withholds almost as much pleasure as it yields.
It doesn't hurt that the lyrics are vague enough to lend themselves to open-ended interpretation. ("Hulled far from the highway aisle," I read, and feel none the wiser, even after trying out various homophones.) The way they're overdubbed, consonants garbling together at the edges of Vernon's fraught falsetto, only further smudges their intelligibility. Beyond the cryptic references presumably knowable only to Vernon and his intimates, we're left with a few boldly declarative statements: "At once I knew I was not magnificent," surely a universal feeling, at least outside the 1%; and "I could see for miles, miles, miles," a tweak on an old staple from the Who, but with the drama inverted, the horizon internalized and turned back upon itself. Anyone who's ever driven late at night towards an unknown destination will recognize this stretch of road. --Philip Sherburne
"Holocene", the song that got me, has remained moving in the months since, in moods sunny and stoic as well as worn out and wrung dry. Beneath the surface beauty of the chiming guitars and close harmonies, far more ambivalent tensions are at play-- pedal steel sighing against muted vibraphones, weary handclaps, a quiet squall of clarinets. The rising and falling chord changes create a sense of motion that develops throughout the whole song, a tide-like ebb and flow that ends with an abrupt denouement, so swift it withholds almost as much pleasure as it yields.
It doesn't hurt that the lyrics are vague enough to lend themselves to open-ended interpretation. ("Hulled far from the highway aisle," I read, and feel none the wiser, even after trying out various homophones.) The way they're overdubbed, consonants garbling together at the edges of Vernon's fraught falsetto, only further smudges their intelligibility. Beyond the cryptic references presumably knowable only to Vernon and his intimates, we're left with a few boldly declarative statements: "At once I knew I was not magnificent," surely a universal feeling, at least outside the 1%; and "I could see for miles, miles, miles," a tweak on an old staple from the Who, but with the drama inverted, the horizon internalized and turned back upon itself. Anyone who's ever driven late at night towards an unknown destination will recognize this stretch of road. --Philip Sherburne
Got it in one there, Philip... As I said, my thoughts exactly...
xxx
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
...music...
... there has been OH so much great music for me to happily indulge in this year... new albums from Gotye and The Jezabels - plus the added thrill of seeing them live...
... the incredible Florence + the Machine releasing a new album ( out this Friday, CANNOT wait!)...
... tickets for Big Day Out 2012 purchased and the excitment of seeing Kayne West live sometimes is just too much to bear... Yes the man is arrogant, but he is an amazing perfomer/musican and he will be a sight to see....
... other concerts this year have included Aloe Blacc, Local Natives and John Legend... plus Boy & Bear to follow next month...
... music madness I tell you...
xxx
All pictures thank to Google Images
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
New Music LOVE...!!
It has been a great couple of days for me, have been watching some cool (and not so cool...) movies, and I don't know about you, but I LOVE movie music!
Discovered "The Boxer Rebellion" from the wonderful "Going the Distance" featuring Drew Barrymore and Justin Long:
Coolest thing is that they actually play themselves in the movie! So I got to hear lots of their music...
I found another awesome song while the credits were running - Airbourne Toxic Event "Half of Something Else"... Reading up on them as we speak...(type ?read ?...)
Also discovered Boyce Avenue whilst clicking away on the net one day... From my understanding they sing covers, but man do they do a great job!
Fav at the moment is "The Freshman" , originally by Verve Pipe, from the 90's.
Last but not least was a beautiful song called "Heaven and Hell " by a group called Wild Colonials, from the movie Conviction (starring Hilary Swank and Sam Rockwell)
Great movie!
Why don't you have a bit of a listen next time you watch a movie, you just may pick up something new to add to your music library!
xx
Images thanks to Google Images and We Heart It
Thursday, January 6, 2011
blake + florence...!!
Such an unlikely pair...!! But two of my favourite fabulous ladies, nonetheless...!!
xx
Pics thanks to Just Jared
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
...come on skinny love...
Bon Iver would have to be one of my favourite bands...
I stumbled across "Skinny Love", which is probably their biggest hit, while listening to a random cd left in my boyfriends car by one of his friends...
Justin Vernon is the lead vocalist and is voice is just...Magic. Hypnotic.Beautiful.
I loved reading up on him and discovering he wrote their debut album in a cabin in the middle of nowhere...
Since then, I have downloaded said album and absolutely any other song they had anything to do with, which sadly, wasn't much.
Until now.
Bon Iver contributed to an amazing song on the "New Moon" soundtrack, called "Roslyn" and also features on two songs on Kayne West's new album "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy" - "Monster" and " Lost in the World"
Hooray!
THEN my favourite-ist beauty lady in the world , one Ms Zoe Foster, tweeted yesterday about another band Justin is involved with!!!
The band is called Volcano Choir. The album "Unmap".
LOVE!
xx
Thank you, once again, to Google Images, for the pretty picture
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