
I was in the middle of drafting a response to Kirstin's challenge this month describing this great conversation Matt & I had a couple of weeks ago about some of the selection-topic-related reasons why women weren't represented much in our last few playlists, when I realized that Matt had just done it rather eloquently himself in a comment on this month's selection post . Read it to see where our heads be. Now that that's out of the way, let me focus on my list. Kirstin's challenge was wide open to interpretation, and because there [...]

I'm not a huge fan of Gemma Hayes . She kinda fits into the ever increasing beautiful but bland female singer-songwriter category quite well. Not as irritatingly smug and dull as KT Tunstall, nor as individual or captivating as Joanna Newsom . And just simply not in the same league as Cat Power . Yet there's no denying the joyous melancholia brought on by listening to 'Ran for miles'. It's the perfect soundtrack to a lazy Sunday evening. The sun going down. A light [...]