MUSIC!
Weekly Songs
Some recent favorites: Beach House, Bats for Lashes...
Rediscovering: San Francisco late 60's bands (Quicksilver Messanger Service, Spirit)...
Songs that tickle my fancy (I'm trying to stay in more unfamiliar territory):
Vampire Weekend - M79
M.I.A. - Jimmy
Diplo - Summer's Gonna Hurt You
Franghiz Ali-Zadeh - Mugam Sayagi
Natacha Atlas - Yeranos
People Press Play - These Days
Super Furry Animals - Pan Ddaw'r Wawr, Sarn Helen (awesome songs from Mwng)
The Dandy Warhols - Godless, Mohammed, Nietzsche; Great introduction.
Viva Voce - Never Be Like Yesterday; reminiscent of DeVotcKa.
Saltillo - Grafting
DJ Shadow - Blood on the Motorway (from In Tune and On Time) - The definitive version. Breathtaking.
Grizzly Bear - Knife; Plans; On a Neck, On a Spit; I like I like.
My Brightest Diamond - Dragonfly
Fields - Sisters
Cloud Cult - Where It Starts
The Album Leaf - Always for You
Letting Up Besides Great Faults - If You're Here Today
Gonzales - Let's Groove Again; very enjoyable, in both variations.
Gonzales - Why Don't We Disappear?; see above.
Bedroom Walls - In Anticipation of Your Suicide; Plinky goodness.
Beulah - A Good Man is Easy to Kill
Armin van Buuren - Wall Of Sound (feat. Justine Suissa).
Starlight Mints - Rosemarie; hot-diggity song. (I think my descriptions have gone for explanatory to exclamatory...) Thank you Bridget.
Morcheeba - Everybody Loves a Loser; Ah great song, thank you Aaron.
Kid Dakota - Ten Thousand Lakes; Homesteader; Pine Ridge; All are deliciously awesome, in order of. Thank you Hannah.
Muse - Map of the Problematique; hot techno action.
Muse - Time is Running Out; love that tune.
Grandaddy - Collective Dreamwish of Upperclass Elegance; there's this little tune that happens near the end that always sticks in my head...
Juanes - A Dios Le Pido; qué sabroso!
Iron & Wine - Woman King; a much more Gravenhurst-y style I & W song
The Orb - A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain
The Delgados - Knowing When To Run; is that a sample from Scheherazade I hear?
Low & Spring Heel Jack – Way Behind; Seufty Stevens must've been listening to this when he wrote "Chicago"...
Gravenhurst - Black Holes in the Sand; usurped 'I Turn My Face to the Forest Floor' as my favorite Gravenhurst song
Bent - Exercise 1
A.C. Newman - Drink to Me, Baby, Then
Crystal Skulls - Hussy
Sea and Cake - The Leaf
Fountains of Wayne - Hackensack
Emiliana Torrini - Fingertips
Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire - Dear Old Greenland; greatest, silliest song in all of Islanska (it's true name).
Metronomy - Black Eye Burnt Thumb
Albums as a whole (this is not a list of my favorite albums, but rather a list of the albums which are great all the way through. I guess I might as well make the former at some point):
Call Florence Pow - The Strange Situation
A.C. Newman - The Slow Wonder
The Delgados - Universal Audio
The Starlight Mints - Drowaton; Chalk full of great songs.
Super Furry Animals - Phantom Power
Yoko Kanno - Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex OST 1
Kruder & Dorfmeister - DJKicks; This is something so familiar to me I honestly can't say whether it's objectively good or not (not that that means anything anyway)...
Death Cab for Cutie - Forbidden Love EP; One of the strongest EPs by a band, and my favorite cd from Death Cab (for Cutie).
Andrew Bird - & The Mysterious Production of Eggs; Weather Systems
Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire - The Swimming Hour; Honestly, the man can do no wrong.
Architecture in Helsinki - Fingers Crossed; kooky.