Blog: heartbreak tango

I received via USPS today a vinyl copy of my favorite record from last year, the EP No Way Down by Air France . Surprisingly, shipping from lovely and scenic (according to my imagination) Goteborg, Sweden's impeccable Sincerely Yours took only one week, and I'm guessing that is probably due to the impossibly adorable stamps. If the music and the government-run Posten are to be believed, everything in Sweden really is made of hearts (in a blissed-out sort of turmoil or otherwise), including swans, ice, clouds, and flowers. That is all. [...]