Tu Fawning - Anchor

Ok, this song is old as the sea. 2012, imagine that. We old ones nod sagely while you kids pause for an instant in your racket and are awed by its sheer beauty. Mind the lyrics, do you ever?

Pearl Jam - The End

Sometimes you find songs that you overlook, or hear, then don't think of til you hear them again, and have to pause for thought:

Pearl Jam - The End

What were all those dreams we shared
Those many years ago?
What were all those plans we made now
Left beside the road?
Behind us in the road

More than friends, I always pledged
Cause friends they come and go
People change, as does everything
I wanted to grow old
I just want to grow old

Slide up next to me
I'm just a human being

You see?
Believe

White Buffalo

This track is from The White Buffalo's new album, "Shadows, Greys and Evil Ways":

The White Buffalo - Don't You Want It

And the track below is from their previous album "Once Upon a Time in the West":

The White Buffalo - Wish It Were True

Boy, come on out from the cold.
You're lost outside there, don't you know?
It's not what you say, it's what you do.
Just keep wishing your wishes are true.
Well your dreams, they're reality.
There's no pain, there's no misery.
Just polish the blood and the brews.
For there's just no way you can lose.
Well I wish it was true.

Country, I was a soldier to you.
I did what you asked me to.
It was wrong, and you knew.

Country, now I'm just a stranger to you.
A number, a name; it's true.
Throw me away when you're through.

Home of the brave and the free; the red, white, and blue.
I wish it was true.

The Orwells

The Orwells - Who Needs You

You better toss your bullets
You better hide your guns
You better help the children
Let 'em have some fun

Grouplove

There's a new Grouplove album, and the first single is lush, fun and full of life :)

Grouplove - Ways to Go

Diamond Rings I do.

This may be the happiest song I've heard in recent memory. Diamond Rings, the efforts of a singer songwriter who defies convention and is just themselves. The song is cute in an innocent way like somebody stripped off the years of varnish on our hardened hearts to allow us to feel like a kid again. It's also so damned musically photogenic with the synth work, danceable drum loops, and tasteful club sound. Click the video and you will see what I mean.

Ramona Falls and The Boxer Rebellion

I always feel fortunate when I find a new song that is absorbed effortlessly and becomes a part of my psyche, looped in my head all day like an affirmation of my need to experience new tones and ideas.

Last week I discovered Ramona Falls and The Boxer Rebellion.

This track by The Boxer Rebellion "Diamonds" sucks me in with it's ambient guitar, opaque lyrics, and reverb. It reminds me a little of VAST with a touch of "The boys of Summer" from Don Henley. It makes me think of young love and that feeling when your need for another person was all consuming, like a fire that burned in your body until you could be next to them.

The video is as incomprehensible as the song but they are speaking in the language of feelings over words.



Ramona Falls song "Sqworm" similarly has a feeling associated with it. You have to listen to the harmony of the song to really appreciate it. On the surface it could be any indie song, but it's roots run deep and the harmony and melody, the chord structure is refreshing and shows a subtle mastery of chord structure. The vocalist reminds me a little of "Thee More Shallows", and in a very weird way the chord progression reminds me of a Castlevania game I used to play on the Super Nintendo. What can I say, I get weird vibes about music that make me relate it to anything but music.