pick up and pack up the place

Movin' on up, movin' on out. Found a new place to stretch my legs.

Hope to see you there.

And where will we go?

I don't expect that I have many, if any followers, but I want to apologize for leaving you with a post indulging my guilty pleasures (shit was pretty cash though), which provided an active link for no more than maybe an hour or two, and then running off for however long it's been. It's just that life caught up with me, and that's really about the size of it.

I wanted to make this post though not only to apologize, but to also give any possible readers a fair warning and say that I don't exactly know what will be happening with this. Right now it's hard to say, but if there is a continued commitment things are going to be a little different, as I'm sure plenty of people have noticed that it's not exactly happening around here too frequently, and though I'm happy for anyone who made new discoveries, it also isn't exactly thrilling for majority of the people who probably already have most of what's on here in their collections.

So where will we go? To be honest, fuck if I know. But we'll certainly be taking a step in a new direction, and I guess that counts for something, doesn't it?

Monster

( lul )

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Headphones - Self Titled

The good ol' CC and successive illnesses have been keeping me scarce, so I apologize for not updating this thing in quite awhile, if there are any devout followers at this point that is (if there ever even were, really). What musical archive I once had has also gone missing, so picking out something to feature has become difficult. But, I'm still going to try to do my best.

Many of you are probably familiar with this indie trio (more of a duo though, really), featuring David Bazan (Pedro The Lion), Frank Lenz (Starflyer 59), and at some point or another Nick Peterson (Fleet Foxes) was involved in some way, shape or form. It's a drum and keys outfit, and the project was only active long enough to produce this single slef-titled debut, but it's a nice little gem of melancholy and rhythm that always seems to find its way back into my playlist.

Andrew Douglas Rothbard - Exodusarabesque

I've been scouring google's blogsearch off and on for a good couple of months, trying desperately to find a downloadable copy of this utterly fascinating, mesmerizing album, and until yesterday my hunts had proved fruitless. I can't for the life of me remember how I caught word of this, I hadn't even heard of Rothbard, but something about that incadescent mass of pluming shapes and colors called out to me like a strange light in the dark, and upon arrival I was not at all dissappointed by my findings, but totally entranced. Like many others, I find myself at a loss for words, and am not certain that any explanation I provide would do justice to this beautiful monster. Exodusarabesque is a wondrous dreamscape, so unique in its composition that it would be an absolute shame to pass it up. Give it a spin and get lost; you may not come back.

Buy

(link removed. please purchase.)

Omar Rodriguez Lopez - Xenophanes

His second release of 2009, Xenophanes surprisingly finds Omar in a far more traditional, refined approach as the album travels quickly through an energetic, uplifting frame of rock that seemed far beyond the grasp or attention span of this particular artist. He's even managed to finally find an appropriate setting for that long list of effects his music has become so accustomed to in the length of his career, with strange, sweeping pulses, and whirring, vibrating electronics providing a nice undercurrent, never crowding or overpowering the compositions. Also featured on the album is Latin singer/songwriter Ximena Sariñana, providing backing vocals and appearing on the long awaited studio version of "Flores De Cizaña".

Xenophanes is another much welcome breath of fresh air in Rodriguez Lopez's very extensive catalog, and brings with it, for the first time, not a single undesirable moment.

--I've been forgetting to put this in, but click the image for the download link--

The Bird and the Bee

Updates are probably going to be doled out like rapidfire for the next week or so, so let's get down to business.

This duo has been described as a short list of equally silly subgenres, all of which carry their own negative connotations in just about every circle, so I'll skip the categorization and just tell you that they make hip-shaking, pleasent little pop songs that seem to carry, and yet at the same time are lead by vocalist/songwriter Inara George's almost heavenly voice.

I was first introduced to these two albums over a winter break, so the music always has that association for me. But it's good for all seasons, and is gauranteed to delight.