Wye Oak - Strangers (orig. The Kinks)
One of the best shows I’ve ever been to, one of my favorite songs from the show, the guitar solo somehow made my now-healing burnt arm hurt.
All the things I own I will share with you,
and if I feel tomorrow like I feel today,
we’ll take what we want and give the rest away.
Strangers on this road we are all,
But we are not two we are one.
(Source: numberruns)
I saw this described as “mid-period Slayer, if Slayer were made up of one 17 year old girl from Sweden playing guitar and writing completely different sounding music.” (MyBand’sBetterThanYourBand) I thought it was apt.
Gobble Gobble - Nikki (I Am Not The Dream)
I got re-interested in Gobble Gobble after finding and consequently obsessing over Purity Ring (with one member from Gobble Gobble and a lovely vocalist). This song seems to be part of a trend of what I’ll pretentiously call ‘reappropriating hip hop,’ the fruition of a generation of kids to whom the genre was part of a broad soundscape. Wrapping semi-formulaic phrasing in lush and oozing digital sound creates something entirely new: an utterly danceable romp with the winking inside joke of an entire generation of youth nodding along to a shimmering litany to shorty.
St. Vincent - Cruel
I finally found it. My favorite new St. Vincent song. It took me a good ten minutes of time I should be writing to find a picture that ‘moved me’ and another 5 to figure out how to link it. And that’s cruel.
It’s you, it’s you, it’s all for you, everything I do / I tell you all the time, heaven is a place on earth where you tell me all the things you wanna do / I heard that you like the bad girls, honey, is that true? / Its better than I ever even knew, they say that the world was built for two / Only worth living if somebody is loving you
SO EMO
Purity Ring - Ungirthed
This song feels really lonely for some reason. It might also be my favorite song of all time—at worst, top 5. There’s something about it that feels as complicated as thoughts had late on cold nights; or a feeling of having just-been-with but now alone and knowing that one should be alone at this point in the day for it is only proper and one cannot be with other people every minute of the day but you know, you sort of wish you could be, a little. I can’t decide which I like better, “The scent of my hands is familiar” or just the simplicity of the chorus, “Ears ringing teeth clicking.” It feels somehow wrong to leave those lyrics as written, for they seem to be missing something unable to be captured in type. Listen to the song and find out.
I went through HELL to find you this link, so fucking download it and don’t get me in trouble.
Alex Clare - Damn Your Eyes by Alex Clare
Really great cover; Alex Clare is, for me in general, an extremely hit or miss artist. Either I turn it off after 5 seconds with my eyes screwed shut, or play it 35 times in a row. No dl link with this one, impossible to find a hosted active link, but enjoy the song.
