I'll follow up my last post , which features a Swedish band, with another featuring a Swedish musician. Falling is the song I want to highlight. It's a straightforward indie pop song. I think it is also perfect for the weekend and thus I share it with you now. Little Children is the alias of Linus Lutti. Enjoy Falling .
What a tricky song! You shouldn’t let the first 50 seconds of "Needle" bamboozle you into thinking this is just a good knockoff of the Fleet Foxes. The song begins with a serious folk vibe that is lovingly combined with great vocals, and to my surprise, some very thoughtful lyrics are placed delicately in the mix. As soon as you’re drawn into the voice of Luke Lelond, it evolves into something completely one-of-a-kind because the rest of the band (Mitch DeRosier, Steve Hamelin & Andy Lloyd) joins in solidly. I don’t want it to end, so I play it over [...]
A couple weeks ago, iTunes unveiled “High Heel Leather Boots” by Baby Bee as its free single download. Neither the band name nor the song title sound very rebellious, but leave it to a rock ‘n roll band called Baby Bee to shatter expectations. Hailing from southern Louisiana and recently signed to Universal Republic Records, Baby Bee’s two founding members are Joe and David Stark, brothers by blood and in music. “High Heel Leather Boots” is taken from the band’s label debut The Shaker , a four-track EP that was released earlier this month. In addition to [...]
I could write some words about how I feel about the new The National album, but I'll save that for another day and feature the spectacular lead single from Makthaverskan's upcoming second album. I'll plead ignorance to knowing of the Swedish band before this year, but the soaring vocals of Maja Milner can't be ignored. Layered over top of a surf rock sound, they take central focus, and the repeating "Is that me you’re dreaming of?" have become ingrained after repeated listens. via PRTLS
This is one of my favorite non-folk songs of the year. Actually, it's one of my favorite songs of 2013, period. I'm sure that a lot of people have heard this song at some point over the past two weeks. It's been popping up all over the internet and rightfully so. The ethereal quality is quite enchanting and I get lost for a few minutes every time that I listen. The long, distant outro is a nice artistic flourish that reinforces all of the distance in the song's lyrics, vocals, and overall sentiment. I [...]
I haven’t written in quite some time and with this review, I break my silence. The past two months have been a huge whirlwind of changes. I’m sure many can relate to the sentiment of change – whether it’s something as natural as the changing of seasons and growing ages, or something that you work so hard for and finally achieve. Either way, the past two months have been filled with change, the nice positive kind. And with such changes, I tend to reflect back from time to time. The first concert I ever went to [...]
I can't believe that I haven't written about this song at any point during the past two years. I have featured it on a mix and I've featured a song from one half of the former duo , but I've never featured this song and it is quite possibly the song that best exemplifies 1146 miles. Today I'll rectify that. Every single word in the lyrics of Whatevertown fits me; even that day holds significance. January 1 thought I'd never be alone again [...]
Here's an electropop bedroom project to love. Seesaw is the first song released by Outsides. I'm pretty sure that I account for at least 50 listens on this track and I wanted to share so that you can listen to it 50 times as well. I'm ready for summer at this point and I keep listening to Seesaw hoping the driving beat beckons summer to come quicker. Outsides is Tim Ellis. He's been involved with Chicago bands and now resides in Kansas City. Outsides was originally named Clock People and [...]
Sometimes I can hear a song and I just want to close my eyes and absorb the sounds. There is a smoothness to this song that has sweet as honey vocals and an uncomplicated strum of a guitar that nicely roots its melodious sound in my mind. I couldn't help but begin to sway to the beat. It is very cool, chill, and from Australia. There's gasoline in your heart, there's fire in mine. I know I'm never gonna light you, but there's always nighttime. [...]
This song has been on repeat for me. Combined with the Vampire Weekend stream, my head was nodding along at work all of yesterday and today to music and it made Tuesday and Wednesday slightly more enjoyable than they otherwise would have been. I only like the first half of Vampire Weekend's Modern Vampires of the City (in fact, I think the best 6 songs on that album are the first 6 in some order), but I love all 3 songs on Magic Man's The Fox Den Demos . The EP features Paris [...]
Recording covers of songs can be a tricky business, but when it’s done right, the result can be amazing. In my opinion, it’s rare for a cover and its original counterpart to exist on equal footing, though it has been done before: just listen to the dueling versions of “You Really Got Me” (The Kinks, Van Halen) or “Sympathy for the Devil” (The Rolling Stones, Guns ‘n Roses). However, the pattern most often repeated is one we all know too well: when a cover propels a previously unheard-of song into the spotlight, surprising fans later when they come to realize [...]
Multiple people told me that I should be more excited today. I guess I wasn't outwardly excited or giddy or anything that people want to see when something good occurs. I am, for better or worse, even-keeled a lot of the time. I prefer it. The peaks and the valleys aren't so extreme and I like to believe that I maintain good perspective in the best or worst of times. I lead with that intro because this song, Fire , by the Hollydays is one of the better comedown songs that I've heard recently. One of my [...]
Glasgow-based Prides fuse together a variety of elements to create a catchy synthpop single here on Out Of The Blue . A driving beat off the start that gives way to darkwave and 802s influences, Out Of The Blue is a magnificent pop song from the band former known as Midnight Lion. The influences are fairly obvious from the previous Midnight Lion releases such as All Greatness Stands Firm . With the endorsement of CHVRCHES, this iteration of the band is receiving more attention while maintaining the 'epicness' of their sound. The [...]
I love music festivals, and now is the peak time that they occur again in my little southern world. I recall fondly, at a music festival last summer, noticing an unusual occurrence. Among the fray, an adorable older couple had put down their beach chairs. I couldn’t help but see that the man was focused intently on the music and his wife was nose deep into a thick, juicy novel. This peaked my curiosity. Because I am a gregarious person, at a lull between bands, I struck up a conversation with them. They were literally beaming because they were in [...]
"Grab your cigarettes and follow me out of the living room and I'll get drunk enough to tell you how I feel" I always wonder what happens in a person's life to turn them into such cuttingly honest songwriters. But Taylor Goldsmith, Dawes ' front-man, doesn't hide behind metaphors in this song. Nor does he in the rest of their new album, Stories Don't End, which came out a few weeks ago but I just got my hands on. More direct than ever before, Taylor weaves stories out of his own life, points out [...]
Garage rock as a genre has witnessed extensive transformations since its inception a half-century ago. From the rebellious lyrics of MC5 to the speed and attitude of The Ramones to popular music’s most recent reincarnation in the music of The Black Keys, garage rock has dipped its toes into a multitude of other genres as decades of musical trends and styles have come and gone. At its core, the genre remains dedicated to the theme of carefree accessibility: anyone with an instrument and a band of friends can have their say, so long as their message is interesting and they [...]
I've been a fan of Jinja Safari for over a year now (although they have not really broken through in America like I expected). However, as they march towards releasing their debut album later this month, I've been disappointed by their newly released material and I'm holding out hope that the rest of the album will be more akin to Mermaids or Head In A Blender and less like Oh! Benzo . Fortunately, some of their countrymen (and friends of the site), Anton Franc have [...]
This is absurdly good, in my opinion. An up-and-coming artist that released one of my favorite EPs of last year (St. Lucia) remixing one of 20132s most pleasant surprise hits (The Colourist's Little Games ) sure seems like a recipe for something good. I'm not always a fan of remixes but man, I don't know how you can't like this. It's catchy and irresistible-you could dance to it, you could drive to it, you could have fun to it-while keeping the major aspects of the song intact. In fact, most of the re-working is on [...]
Brothers is a promising young band based in Cleveland, OH that epitomizes the raw sound championed by garage rockers of the past and present. With noted influences like The Black Keys and The White Strips evident in the band’s early low-fi approach, the trio manages to set their music apart from the kind of popular acts that started with a similar sound and setup. Comprised of Joe Fulkerson (guitar, vocals), Steve States (drums, vocals) and Shawn Davis (bass, keys), Brothers got their start covering their favorite artists on stages in and around Cleveland in 2011. Over time, the band transitioned [...]
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Boards of Canada – Reach For The Dead
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