Listen to “Dragonfly Across an Ancient Sky” on MySpace.
If you can’t picture a dragonfly flying across an ancient sky when listening to this Helios song (from Eingya), there’s nothing wrong with you. The problem may well be that the word “dragonfly” is meant to be a verb. To dragonfly is to fly like a dragon, which is very much more like what this song maybe could possibly be about in your head on a misty day. Maybe not. I like it, either way. “Dragonfly” as a verb makes it all about you, though, and let’s face it–it’s always about you.
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Listen to “Coloring the Void EDIT” on MySpace.
M83’s “Coloring the Void” is just the kind of song that makes you want to calculate how much resources it would take for someone to compose and produce the soundtrack to your life as you live it - there might have to be a time machine involved. And on top of these calculations would be the consideration of how much charisma and money and incentives it would take to convince M83 to do it.
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Listen to “Composure” on MySpace.
B. Fleischmann’s “Composure” is a list of things to do, written on the back of a piece of paper in Paris, then dropped in the laundry, which, incidentally, was number 7 on the list. You may wonder whose list it was, or what did or didn’t get done before it was lost, but that would be stupid. Just listen to the song!
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Listen to “Untitled 13″ on MySpace.
“Untitled 13″ might be an homage to a family member’s desert. Supposing, hypothetically, that you had a sibling that maintained a perfectly groomed desert that only they could see, hear, breathe, or taste, this is the song that the desert would choose to be stranded on an island with, above all songs on the planet. This hypothetical situation breaks down once you start including songs from other planets, but for our purposes we’ll exclude this disadvantage, much as relativity can be excluded from Newtonian physics whenever the matter is small and practical. Arovane may or may not agree, though it’s hard to say, as not much has been said. Sometimes there is a limit to what text can do to illustrate sound. Arovane forces this limit with “Untitled 13″.
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Listen to “Silver City” on MySpace.
In “Silver City” (from Delete. Delete. I. Eat. Meat.), Ghostland Observatory bring the tempo down so slow that it’s impossible for the song to be catchy…except that it is, somehow. Incredibly. That takes talent, a kind of talent that will get you hired at the circus, or as an adviser to the world’s most important genealogist. It’s just that rare, and deliciously spectacular.
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Listen to “The Clock” on MySpace.
Where is space if it exists in your head? Stephanie Böhm (of Couch) and Micha Acher (of The Notwist) team up to tear down Thom Yorke’s “The Clock” and rebuild it using the space time anti-continuum. This relates to mass through energy. And if we weren’t so irrevocably (and stupidly) sure of the direction of time-flow, we’d suppose that this version of “The Clock” created Ms. John Soda. But in our time, we see it the other way around.
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Listen to “Static for Blood” on MySpace.
If you have static for blood, electricity for eyes, and ether for brains, you might be able to write a song like this. If not, you’ll have to be as good as Sleepy Eyes of Death. Is “Static for Blood” (from the album Street Lights for a Ribcage) worth waiting for each build? Yes. Do it. Wait for it. Wait for it. Wait for it…. Really. Turn it up loud. Wait. Close your eyes. Wait. Sense your blood. Stop waiting. You’re there.
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Listen to “The Missing Boat” on MySpace.
PlanB explores something heady with “The Missing Boat”. Maybe the boat is gone. Maybe you miss the boat. Maybe you missed the boat. Maybe the boat misses you. Maybe you boat the missing. Maybe missing boat the. Or, it could be that the missing boat, as the title of the song suggests (from the album I’m the Captain, Where We Going?).
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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….
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Listen to “The Crystal Cat”.
Dan Deacon’s “The Crystal Cat” is a Sofia Coppola movie. It is an entire The Cure album. It is a roll in the hay with the original cast of Jesus Christ Superstar. “The Crystal Cat” (from the album Spiderman of the Rings) is the definition of a condensed miracle.
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