Sometimes the best music is the kind that floats above you..
The kind that you can't distinguish but you know still exists.
Alof Arnald's latest album, Sudden Elevation, is her most impressive work to date.
Drawing inspiration from her native Iceland; her melodies are expansive and bountiful while still remaining minimalistic.
I strongly recommend going to see her at any cost!
Few artists can master the idea behind silence.
Whole seconds without a single note.
Music goes on during every second of our lives,
but its the silence that we take for granted.
Yet somehow the quite actually becomes a sound.
Like how after you turn off a lamp or television,
there is always a faint buzz that rises above your head like its passing right over you.
"Translation" is Songs: Ohia's calling card.
If you like this song,
get the album!
One of the most incredible musicians of his time.
Not only does he have one of the most versatile catalogues,
but the sound of his whistle might make your girlfriend swoon.
Noootttt-a-problem.
Feel Flows~
If you like Classical....
If you like Rock N Roll...
If you like Folk Rock...
If you want something that makes you say "Holy Shit!"
LIYL: The Lucksmiths, Bon Iver, Iron & Wine, and M Ward Its good to acknowledge music as an exponential factor for change. The more we change, the more our taste for music change. and so it goes. However, sometimes the music itself sits solidified within its perfect structure. Styles harden and become a musician's own. Chord progressions and time signatures begin to represent the artist, and the artist represents the chord progressions and time signatures. and so it goes. An endless cycle of cause and effect that builds the (respected) genre into what it is now. All though, some musicians- like Christopher Wright- never really adapt new ears for new music. These musicians don't change- they don't alter their ways for the satisfaction of higher selling albums. Instead, they do what they always do. Perfect what has already been perfected. and so it goes. Feel Flows~
M. Ward has been with me for as long as I can remember.
He's best consumed on the nights where you weren't feeling the bar
but ended up there anyway.
Then you wanted to leave early,
but all your friends werent finished hitting on the girls they clearly wouldnt get.
So you walk home alone.
The bar isnt far away,
but you walk slowly.
Slow enough to let an album play till its end.
Slow enough to realize that walking home alone was the best decision you could have made.
M. Ward is saved for the feeling you get when you wrestle your pocket for your house keys outside your door.
The Oh Hello's are what you get when you combine an acoustic guitar with a thunder clap..
A butterfly and a raven.
An open wound and a scar you cant remember how you got.
Songs of reminiscence.
From the places your heart takes you when you're in love
to the fields of trees we remember from when we were children.
The duo is made up of a brother and sister,
and most of the song structure is done in the studio.
but that doesnt change who they are as a band.
Who they want to be.
their melodies are infectious,
and each song marches along to a hammer and nail foot stomp.
Before I get into this- let me explain- their music is seasonal.
I find it constantly dragging me to the idea that the sun lasts forever.
But it doesn't.
Therefore, before we greet the winter,
lets enjoy the last bits of sunshine we have left.
-Cheers-
LIYL: Bon Iver, Bright Eyes, Dodos, Beirut, and Phosphorescent.
Its hard describing the feeling I get when listening to the Bowerbirds.
Their sound takes me back to the woods that line my property at the house i grew up in.
It takes me back to watching the caterpillars fall (fly with style) from one leaf and on to another.
It takes me back to the solitude
-not the kind you hate-
but the kind you cherish.
Their inspirations are as follows:Nature, Earth, Mary Sullivan, and Magic Mushrooms.
...and thats not a bad thing...
In fact, it opens their eyes to issues that are bigger than what the average musician writes about.
They're music is a form of opposition.
A form of discontent.
A form of love through pure hatred of what destruction has occurred "to this wondrous earth"
The Bowerbirds are hypnotic and endlessly beautiful.
Everything is sung with a light coo, over a deep rooted acoustic and accordion.
Everything is dressed in black.
But underneath it, hides a cold steel armor.
In the end, it all bares bright colors.
Yellow Ostrich is someone I have personally been obsessed with for a long time.
He's quirky.
He sings about whales and young love.
But there is a sense of truth behind it all.
You can almost taste the quick slap of his strings,
the shameless screech in his voice, and the fleeting voices he loops in his bedroom.
If you get a chance, see this man live!
Nothin' wrong with a dude in a cowboy hat, with a guitar and bass drum drilled out of a suitcase.
---Pick up his album at Bandcamp.
P.S- If you dont believe me, believe the state of Texas... They loved this album so much they dedicated a day to him..
February 9th = Shakey Graves Day
...And if for some reason you believe that the Folk genre (as a whole) has been beaten in to the ground,
get ready to be proven wrong... Bitch.
...This reminds me of my childhood.
It reminds me of collecting shells, getting lost in the woods,
and swinging too high for my own good on the swing set.
..."Volcano Choir" is a collaboration between Justin Vernon from "Bon Iver" and a band called "A Collection of Bees"
