a woman after my own heart

While she is a total dummmmb bitch for not visiting Calgary or indeed any of Western Canada in her upcoming tour of North America, she writes a mean lyric to pretty awesomely haunting melodies, and for that I will spare her life…by which I of course mean: still buy her forthcoming record when it drops in September.

These two songs are off of different albums, but I’ve been listening to them an offensive amount in the last little while; often back-to-back. If ever she releases a greatest hits album (which I hope she doesn’t because I don’t respect any artist that does), she should place these two tracks in succession. ..with Night Terror first followed by What He Wrote. Just like this:

(Guess how long I tried to formulate a good "that's what he said" joke with the above song title.)

Laura Marling is pretty dope in general and I can’t say that I can pick a favourite song of hers. These two have just been dominating the charts in my workforce playlist. So definitely check out all of her albums which will total three in September, all since 2008. Before this, she was involved in Noah and the Whale, another favourite of mine, though rather more upbeat.

Also, an added win: she is a total babe and asking no one to hit her, not even just "one more time" in order to sell records.

Sad and Soothing

This song has been a regular feature on my everything playlist for the past few weeks. I've been listening to a lot of CocoRosie lately, partially just trying to figure out whether or not CocoRosie and Hercules and Love Affair need to release a joint album or not. I've decided that there might almost be too much overlap. But since I'm such a fan of layering with clothing, maybe that would be glorious - much like wearing a muumuu over sweatpants.

Anyways, when I listened to this song the first 100 times I remained under the impression that it was an uplifting-y ode to love and commitment. Then I listened to alll the lyrics and not just the cool high-pitched ones and realized it was about domestic violence. Le Yikes. This actually doesn't take away from how much I enjoy this track though. On the contrary, it makes it a hell of a lot more resonant. It might be a lot harder to listen to were I at all familiar with domestic violence personally. Thankfully, I am not. My domestic partners are nothing if not the most loving. In fact, the lyrics:

I'll wear your black eyes
I'll bake you apple pies,

I take as referring to Kelsey's fondness for dark eye makeup and willingness to apply it on me, as well as her violent affinity for apple pies and mine with baking them.

Music Snob

Many times over the course of my life wherein I have been super into music I have been called a music snob. S'not true. My defense against this has always been that I WANT, nay, NEED people to listen to the music that I listen to and appreciate it similarly. Music snobs, on the other hand; want to keep all of their favorites trapped within their own ear canals.

It should also be noted that music snobs never admit to liking "mainstream" music. It should be noted in bold italics that I LOVE HANSON.

That being said, this blog willn't have any goal other than exposing you to music that happens to be dominating my iPod of late. Some of it will be new, some of it will be old, and some of it will be HANSON.