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Listen to “Let’s Go Outside” on MySpace.
Listen to how the fuzziness is used–used like you would use a paper towel to clean up wine rings on a coffee table, used like you’d use a razor to shave unwanted hairs off the moles on your back (except in this case, Sprained Ankles makes things dirty instead of clean).
Listen to “Get Wet” on MySpace.
Not only does Breezee One have some of the finest beats I’ve heard in a while (excellent use of horns, piano, and more…), she is also uber-sexy, uber-smart, and uber-insightful. She’s so uber-this and uber-that that I actually use the word “uber” (a word I normally would avoid like the plague) to describe her.
Listen to “doo doo doo doo” on MySpace.
If someone were going to do the soundtrack to the video game of my life, I would want it to be Mommies. Forget about the movies.
Listen to “Production” on MySpace.
Bird Names gives you production value. In “Production”, you won’t hear slick 20-layer guitars. You won’t hear smooth, silky vocals recorded by million dollar microphones. What you will hear is a smorgasbord of truth, caught in crisp, fall-weather style recording techniques brought on by hope and love and tears.
Listen to “Social Life” on MySpace.
Sewn Leather somehow accurately portrayed my social life with their song, aptly titled, “Social Life”. It’s a slow build, but not a slow build to an exciting crescendo of pleasant socialization–it’s a slow build to a neurotic breakdown in which a dark corner is the last refuge of hope. So true….
Listen to “Loredo” on MySpace.
If you ever had the slightest notion that, while you were playing the old, classic video games, you were somehow a part of a thing of great beauty? Adventure gives you proof that you weren’t just having delusions of grandeur.
Listen to “Apple Option Fire” on MySpace.
Hot Lava will melt you with “Apple Option Fire” down your throat in your ears in your pores in your life you have never been melted so efficiently so quickly so easily you have been melted oh yes it’s true you’ve been melted but not this quickly. Listen to it.
Listen to “The Rockets Countdown” on MySpace.
Maybe I’m just a sucker for piano and horns, but “The Rockets Countdown” (from the album No Good Deed Goes Unpunished) is a pretty sweet song. Incidentally, I believe The Minor Canon is looking for a make-up gig on the 24th, so if you know of a bar / tavern / basement where they could play (in the Seattle or Olympia area), let them know.
Listen to “BB Shooting” on easyanthems.org.
Easy Anthems give you a sense of lifetimes of experience. In “BB Shooting” (from the EP Easy Anthems), they give you miles of social interaction in the space of inches measured in teaspoons of sand. This is sand that doesn’t measure the days of our lives, but rather the growths of our lives. And oh, how they’ve grown! They’ve grown to create beautiful music.
Listen to “Free Time” on MySpace.
You’ve put in your hours or days or weeks or months or years. Now, you have time to enjoy those simple pleasures you missed. The Aggrolites know how to spend free time. You can tell by the beat and by the catchy organ. If “Free Time” (from the album Reggae Hit L.A.)suggests that your time away has led others to abandon you, it also suggests that you’ll soon get over it. How can you be sad when you have free time (as well as that catchy organ)?