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• August 28 2012

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• August 26

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the sound will bring me home again.

turning in our sleep making spoons of ourselves

11. Youth Lagoon – The Year of Hibernation 10. Cults - Cults 9. SBTRKT - SBTRKT 8. Timber Timbre – Creep On Creepin’ On 7. Feist – Metals 6. Bon Iver – Bon Iver, Bon Iver 5. Wilco – The Whole Love 4. Austra – Feel It Break 3. Beirut – The Rip Tide 2. Braids – Native [...]

soon the waves and i found the rolling tide soon the waves and i found the rip tide

soon the waves and i found the rolling tide soon the waves and i found the rip tide

he doesn’t make any sound

American Analog Set – “The Following Morning” I return from slumber.

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I figured it might be good to see these storytellers in action. Visit The Iceberg for more stories. Happy Friday! Video : Youth Lagoon – “Montana” + “ A Song & A Memory ” by Trevor Powers of Youth Lagoon. Video : Evening Hyms – “Learning to Fly (Tom Petter Cover) + “ A Song & A Memory ” by Jonas Bonnetta of Evening Hymns. [...]

A. and I joined the Y on Saturday. At first, I hated the thought of joining the gym, but I really enjoyed working out at this facility. It’s so clean and the atmosphere is really great. Now, my entire body is sore even though I kept telling myself I wouldn’t push it on our first day. The long weekend was fun, sad that it’s all over. It began with a rainy day, listening to M83’s “ Raconte-Moi Histoire ” on my way to pick up my A. at Ossington. Jeans all soaked, Justin Bieber [...]

I did a preview/interview with Timber Timbre for the Polaris Music Prize on the weekend. And yesterday Arts & Crafts premiered the band’s the new video (animated by Jesi the Elder ) for “Too Old to Die Young”. Listeners describe Timber Timbre’s LP Creep On Creepin’ On as spooky and gothic. But the timeless quality of the record sounds slower and less dramatic. There’s a lot of build-up in the songs and it’s heroic in a way how they [...]

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Read: A new interview with Stockholm-based illustrator Sara Söderholm on The Iceberg . The title “Getting Away” is borrowed from one of her drawings of the same title. Sara also offers a story for “A Song & A Memory” and builds onto the Stratum list.

Earlier this year, I thought about posting my favourite lyrics from Bon Iver’s LP Bon Iver, Bon Iver . But after the first two songs, I realized it was too difficult, like picking out what you thought were the best looking peacock feathers from a bunch that were the same, and as intricate as the rest. We talked about this one lyric from the chorus of “Holocene” - the line “ I could see for miles, miles, miles .” It makes me think of how tricky and strange the formulation of song-writing can be, and it makes [...]