Devendra Banhart / Angelika
Love how Devendra Banhart switches from English to Spanish so effortlessly.
Karen O and the Kids / Capsize
Argh… I can’t get this out of my head. C-A-P-S-I-Z-E!!!
The Mountain Goats / 1 Samuel 15:23
Enjoying the new quieter Mountain Goats.
Noah and the Whale / Blue Skies
Really digging the new Noah and the Whale
Mew / Sometimes Life Isn’t Easy
Hold my arms back when they beat me.
Leave me in the ditch when they kick me.
Sever my limbs and deceive me.
Sometimes life isn’t easy.
Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson / Relator
Awww… who knows, Scarlett?
The Antlers / Kettering
The haunting falsettos, the slow quiet piano build-up, the climatic crashing drum beats. Oh, this could be my favourite song of the year.
YACHT / The Afterlife
Well, it’s like LCD Soundsystem with female on vocals.
The Antlers / Bear
The Antlers’ Hospice is working up to the top of my list for the year. From the comments on SongMeanings: “The idea in Hospice is that sometimes love is not enough and that despite love, people can be unable to help each other - in fact, they can do enormous damage to one another.” Powerful.
British Sea Power / Come Wander With Me
A stark departure from the preceding album, Do You Like Rock Music?, the new British Sea Power is a quiet and largely ambient soundtrack to the 1934 quasi-documentary film Man of Aran by Robert J. Flaherty (of Nanook of the North). ‘Come Wander With Me’ is the only vocal track on this album. Haunting.
