"To be loved like that makes all the difference. It does not lessen the terror of the fall, but it gives a new perspective on what that terror means. I had jumped off the edge, and then, at the very last moment, something reached out and caught me in midair. That something is what I define as love. It is the one thing that can stop a man from falling, the one thing powerful enough to negate the laws of gravity." Paul Auster (Moon Palace)
Showing posts with label 2021. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2021. Show all posts

Sunday, March 8, 2026

The Weather Station - atlantic, 2021

“Atlantic” furthers Ignorance’s sophisticated turn in sound, bursting with urgent percussion, flutters of woodwind and strings, and Lindeman’s cool voice. The song finds the narrator prone on a cliff, watching a sunset as frightening as it is beautiful, “blood red floods the Atlantic.”
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Tuesday, January 6, 2026

The Beatles - the walk cover, 2021

"The Beatles recorded a version of Jimmy McCracklin’s 1958 hit ‘The Walk’ during the Get Back/Let It Be sessions in January 1969. The song was written by Jimmy McCracklin and Bob Garlic. Released as a single in January 1958, it peaked at number seven on the US Billboard Hot 100 in 1958."
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Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Owe Almgren And Sisters Of Invention - across the universe cover, 2021

"Their latest album, a collaboration with their father Owe Almgren, was released in 2021. "Owe Almgren & Sisters of Invention Does The Beatles Nordic Noir", an album with interpretations where the musicians aimed to capture an atmosphere of a more melancholic character."
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Sunday, March 23, 2025

Saint Etienne - penlop, 2021

"The song is off their forthcoming release I’ve Been Trying To Tell You, available September 10, 2021 via Heavenly Recordings. The LP has spawned remixes by Daniel Avery, Jane Weaver and Vince Clarke. A live tour follows in November with a limited edition box set in the works. Thirty years on from their groundbreaking debut Foxbase Alpha, I’ve Been Trying To Tell You was made largely from samples and sounds drawn from the years 1997-2001, a period that was topped and tailed by Labour’s election victory and the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers. Was the optimism of that era a lost golden age, or was it a period of naïvety, delusion and folly? The collective folk memory of any period differs from the lived reality. I’ve Been Trying To Tell You is an album about memory, how it works, how it tricks you and creates a dream-like state. It also taps into the way we think of our youth, a sense of place, and where we come from."
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Friday, January 10, 2025

The Weather Station - parking lot, 2021

"‘Parking Lot’ is a nimble and careful reflection on the intensity of emotions that the natural world can inspire in us. The song’s context is the degradation of the natural world that is so commonplace that we barely notice it any more. That outline makes the song sound hefty, and OK it is, but it has a lightness of touch that is irresistible — think peak Fleetwood Mac, or The Blue Nile doing Blue Monday. ‘Parking Lot’ is a reflection too on ineffability, on the mystery of emotions that we feel intensely and just can’t account for, like, say, when we pay particularly close attention to a particularly well-loved tree."
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Thursday, December 26, 2024

The The - the beaten generation live, 2021

"An amazing release, top to bottom very well done."
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Tuesday, October 15, 2024

The Weather Station - tried to tell you, 2021

“Tried To Tell You,” which is about “reaching out to someone; a specific person, or maybe every person, who is tamping down their wildest and most passionate self in service of some self (and world?) destructive order.”
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Wednesday, August 14, 2024

The Phoenix Foundation And Fazerdaze - beside yourself, 2021

“I really enjoyed working with Samuel on this track. We recorded the vocals one morning at his place after we drank green juice and joked about how bougie and salubrious we were. It was special for me to see the inner workings of their creative process while they were still in the thick of their new material. Really chuffed to have this track out now, I’ve been a massive fan of The Phoenix Foundation for years.”
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Thursday, August 8, 2024

The Beatles - across the universe twenty twenty-one mix, 2021

"The song's lyrical structure is straightforward: three repetitions of a unit consisting of a verse, the line "Jai guru deva om" and the line "Nothing's gonna change my world" sung four times. The lyrics are highly image-based, with abstract concepts reified with phrases like thoughts "meandering", words "slithering", and undying love "shining". The title phrase "across the universe" appears at intervals to finish lines, although it never cadences, always appearing as a rising figure, melodically unresolved. It finishes on the leading note; to the Western musical ear, the next musical note would be the tonic and would therefore sound complete."
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Tuesday, August 6, 2024

Rachel Love - primrose hill, 2021

"Rachel was guitarist and singer in the seminal 70/80’s band Dolly Mixture who were signed to Paul Wellers' ‘Respond’ label and championed by The Undertones & John Peel. She was the singer in the band ‘Spelt’ and has released her first solo album ‘Picture in Mind’ in 2021."
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Saturday, July 20, 2024

Damon Albarn - polaris, 2021

“I took some of these realtime, extreme elemental experiences and then tried to develop more formal pop songs with that as my source. I wanted to see where that would take me. Sometimes it took me down to Uruguay and Montevideo. Other times I went to Iran, Iceland or Devon. With travel being curtailed, it was kind of nice to be able to make a record that put me strangely in those places for a moment or two.”
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Tuesday, July 9, 2024

Lee Scratch Perry - give thanks and praise alternative dub, 2021

"He acted like a madman but nobody really crazy could have made so many classic records in such a short space of time."
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Wednesday, June 12, 2024

We Are Revolution - all alone in this town, 2021

"Dminor and Falcon Chest, the two members of We Are Revolution, have dug into their parents record collections as well as exploring the record stores of their hometown to come up with an eclectic mix of the last 30 years of electronic pop music."
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Monday, May 20, 2024

Broome - winter sun, 2021

"Brooklyn, New York"
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Wednesday, May 15, 2024

Fleet Foxes - sunblind solstice version, 2021

"In his artist’s statement, he said he “wanted to make an album that celebrated life in the face of death,” and he did so by conjuring globality through the spirits of deceased musicians—David Berman, Richard Swift, Judee Sill, John Prine—whom he loved greatly, in juxtaposition with that seminal Fleet Foxes self-contained heartache and fits of momentary, geographical joy. “I think, with Swift and Berman passing, [their deaths] made it clear to me how important community is and how music is a binder and how these people could bring so many others together,”
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Monday, April 22, 2024

The Weather Station - robber, 2021

"The song begins with the light, dry tap of a drumstick on a cymbal, and from there blooms into the most dynamic and captivating music from her project as the Weather Station yet. A dagger of piano rings like an alarm, strings and a saxophone emphasize the intrigue and uncertainty. The double trap-kit percussion functions as both the rhythm and respiratory system for the song, cymbals splashing like the release of a held breath. This maximalist version of the band never once feels like overindulgence. Instead, it animates the emotional landscape that accompanies a crumbling worldview."
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Sunday, April 7, 2024

Saint Etienne - her winter coat, 2021

“We love Christmas, as you probably know, and it feels like it’s been a while since our last really Christmassy Christmas record. But I think Pete has done a properly beautiful, icy, frosted, festive job on ‘Her Winter Coat’.”
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Wednesday, March 27, 2024

The Mountain Goats - get famous live, 2021

"Whereas it seems to mess with people really bad, it seems like the younger you get famous, the worse it is for you. So the song is a curse, right, the song is, I just thought, that’s the worst thing you can wish on somebody."
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Tuesday, March 19, 2024

The Haunted Youth - teen rebel, 2021

"For most of us here, our teen years seems like ancient history or something out of another lifetime. But whether young, old, or somewhere in the middle, we can still pinpoint what made those days so powerful: that feeling of pure invincibility. And that the whole world was right there for the taking. More than a decade later, the future doesn’t exactly look as bright as we’d hoped, but that doesn’t mean we can’t turn to nostalgia as a means of escapism. Enter Belgium’s aptly named The Haunted Youth, a new indie rock outfit whose debut single captures the essence of being young, hungry, and hopeful. Their first-ever release is called “Teen Rebel”, and it paints scenes that are all too familiar — even for this 33-year-old oldie. “Sweet teen rebel, you’re walking to the door, teen rebel/ You pass out on the floor, teen rebel/ Always wanted something more,” frontman Joachim Liebens sings."
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Monday, March 11, 2024

Father John Misty - do you realize cover, 2021

"Father John Misty, American folk singer-songwriter and former member of indie rock bands Saxon Shore and Fleet Foxes, performed a version of the song in July 2012 for The A.V. Club's A.V. Undercover series."
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