Weekends of Sound
For your weekend enjoyment, here's some songs that have been posted a billion times already by bloggers everywhere but that I like more than everything else I'm listening to right now. More importantly, each song is from the kind of outstanding album that a single MP3 can never really do justice to. I'm especially into Camera Obscura's Let's Get Out of This Country right now.
Camera Obscura - Lloyd, I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken
While it's difficult not to compare this band to Belle and Sebastian, such comparisons are becoming increasingly off the mark, especially since Camera Obscura are making the kind of 60s cinematic twee pop that B&S have been unable to since at least Boy With The Arab Strap. In fact, I don't think B&S have really ever been able to produce the kind of sweeping wall-of-sound effect that makes Let's Get Out of This Country so awesome. This song, in particular, is like the musical equivalent of those pop-rocks candies: sweet, concentrated and explosive. Ok, maybe not explosive, but at least pleasingly peppy.
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Okkervil River - For Real
The big nostalgic revival in indie music right now seems to be the return of this particular kind of crunchy, early-90s-ish, emotive rock and roll. Not that this is a bad thing. Ladyhawk is perhaps the most unapologetic of this new breed of bands, but I hear enough Dinosaur Jr., Nirvana and Silkworm in this song to fill the nostalgic void that seems to grow inside me more the further I get from teenagehood . The sharp guitar stabs in the chorus and the yelping/half-screamed vocals alone are enough to make this song a permanent fixture on my daily playlist.
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Juana Molina - No Es Tan Cierto
I'm a recent convert to the music of this Argentinean songstress/actress, but everything I've heard so far has been outstanding. I'm very excited to be checking out her Toronto concert on June 26 with José Gonzaléz and Psapp. In particular, I'm curious to see how Molina recreates the lush backdrop of found sounds and layered instruments on stage.
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Camera Obscura - Lloyd, I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken
While it's difficult not to compare this band to Belle and Sebastian, such comparisons are becoming increasingly off the mark, especially since Camera Obscura are making the kind of 60s cinematic twee pop that B&S have been unable to since at least Boy With The Arab Strap. In fact, I don't think B&S have really ever been able to produce the kind of sweeping wall-of-sound effect that makes Let's Get Out of This Country so awesome. This song, in particular, is like the musical equivalent of those pop-rocks candies: sweet, concentrated and explosive. Ok, maybe not explosive, but at least pleasingly peppy.
[buy]
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Okkervil River - For Real
The big nostalgic revival in indie music right now seems to be the return of this particular kind of crunchy, early-90s-ish, emotive rock and roll. Not that this is a bad thing. Ladyhawk is perhaps the most unapologetic of this new breed of bands, but I hear enough Dinosaur Jr., Nirvana and Silkworm in this song to fill the nostalgic void that seems to grow inside me more the further I get from teenagehood . The sharp guitar stabs in the chorus and the yelping/half-screamed vocals alone are enough to make this song a permanent fixture on my daily playlist.
[buy]
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Juana Molina - No Es Tan Cierto
I'm a recent convert to the music of this Argentinean songstress/actress, but everything I've heard so far has been outstanding. I'm very excited to be checking out her Toronto concert on June 26 with José Gonzaléz and Psapp. In particular, I'm curious to see how Molina recreates the lush backdrop of found sounds and layered instruments on stage.
[buy]
posted by ian at 1:39 PM
2 Comments:
Hello Popsheep friends. My friend Torey and I just started an MP3 blog (today!) and we've listed you at the very tippy top of our MP3 blog comrades. We were hoping you would give us some love, and perhaps a space on your sidebar.
xo
Meagan
And I forgot to mention!
This is our blog:
Yarn and Glue
What a mistake.
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