For your tiny little earholes
Sweet tits, some good music being played in the house lately. Some old, some new, some in-between. These are some of my favorites of the last few months.
Hurricane Bells: “This Year” from Tonight Is The Ghost, which you will buy here. Such a gorgeous, gorgeous album. Other favorite songs from this album are “Darkness Is So Deep,” “Crocodile” and “Tenterhooks.”
Wild Beasts: “All The King’s Men” from Two Dancers, which you will buy here. The whole record is catchy as hell (thanks to Mr. It’s Lexi, Bitch! for turning me onto this one).
The xx: “Islands” from xx which you will buy here. This is the most disturbingly good record I’ve heard in the last year or so, I love it dearly.
She & Him: “In The Sun” from Volume Two, which you will buy here. Obviously, the perfect summer record. Listening to it makes me feel like the “after” girl in antidepressant commercials, hanging out with adorable friends on a sunny porch, laughing, drinking iced tea and playing an impromptu game of flag football!….instead of sitting on my couch in sweatpants eating string cheese, which is what is usually happening. Additionally, my friend Kate did the cover art for this record and it’s super rad and sweet!
Pajo: “Where Eagles Dare” from Scream With Me, his record of acoustic Misfits covers THAT IS SO FUCKING AWESOME YOU HAVE NO IDEA!!!!! You must, must, must buy it here. Even if you’ve never liked or listened to the Misfits, you will love this, I PROMISE YOU.
Massive Attack featuring Hope Sandoval: “Paradise Circus” from Massive Attack’s Heligoland which you will buy here. Oh my goodness, two of my favorites at the one time! It’s exactly what you would expect, totally unearthly and lazily paced and beyond beyond beyond sublime!
And, of course, saving the most life-altering for last……
Lady Gaga featuring Beyonce: “Telephone” from Gaga’s The Fame Monster which I’m going to assume you already own because if you don’t YOU SHOULD BE FUCKING EMBARRASSED.
Highly NSFW and highly fucking ferocious!
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Lately I’ve thought I would be perfectly happy if I never listened to anything but the xx again. (So good!!!) On the off chance that this is not true, though, I’m glad to have these other recommendations. Plus, how fantastic is this video for Hurricane Bells? I LOVE what they are doing with that bald Fisher Price Little Person. OMG, Look at him looking at his Fisher Price Little People family portrait! Look at him hiding under the covers! Look at him in front of the cardboard TV! In My Life: The Movie, I want the part of Me to be played by this bald little plastic man. And I want Lexi to make the soundtrack.
Holy shit, is that She & Him video the anti-”Hit Me Baby One More Time” or what?!
spot on with the she and him post. funny!