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Only Neil Hannon could make such a depressing song sound so bright and cheerful.

“Can you feel the sadness in our love / it’s the only kind we’re worthy of”

Thank you. Trying to escape the clutches of Melancholia, i’ve been checking out some songs from that album- very interesting.

And an old favourite

a few weeks back i met an elderly woman in the street as i was waiting for my wife with my dogs outside the shop, I thought i’d show her how well Bryn can sing, and as she said she liked Nat King Cole, that was the song we sang together.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DtAm4PvoBs

unexpectedly reminded again of Melancholia, but what a great song, and i’d forgotten it’s one of Wordsworth’s best, A Slumber did my spirit seal. What a fascinating album this is developing into

Just reading about Neil Hannon on Wikipedia, it says he wrote this Charlotte Gainsbourg song

i’m haunted by that music!! ^

Yeah, The Turin Horse is one of the titles on my long list of “Saved Discs* on Netflix. Evocative music for sure.

Changing mood now:
I was a bit slow getting into tUnE-yArDs, but I saw her at a festival last summer and was impressed so she has grown on me a lot since then. Looking forward to seeing her again this spring.

This never bores me, an eternal beauty. Portishead – Humming

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7FtYNHtrTA

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^Ah yes, another interesting Scandinavian.

20th century go and sleep. You’re plasticine.

http://youtu.be/V_u2lTKJzFE

DOWNBYLAW — That shit is wild! How have I just learned about the tUnE-yArDs? Amazing stuff…
VIKTOR — I really like that song!

Cool that you like it Josh. If you like this, I would recommend the rest of the album: It`s called The Brothel. I think it´s really great.

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Josh, yeah amazing indeed. Kind of weird that I was slow getting into her since I like her so much now. St. Vincent and tUnE-yArDs will both be at Coachella, and then they will be touring together afterwards. That’s great, but they will be up in Oakland right away. I’d prefer a few weeks gap, but, hey, a show’s a show, isn’t it?

Hah, Psychic Ills! My brother asked me a few weeks ago what other music I had with drone sounds like The Black Angels. I gave him a few suggestions and then went off hunting around for more. I found Psychic Ills which isn’t drone, but I’d never heard them before, and now I’ve had them on rotation quite a bit the last few weeks.

And yeah, I’m getting that Susanne Sundfør album soon.

For the life of me, I really can’t grasp the appeal of tuneyards (no, I won’t spell the name properly). I haven’t heard music so aggressively awful since the Dirty Projectors but I guess it fits into the same genre of aggressively atonal vocal yodeling/musical noodling tunelessness meets “now it’s cool for white people to appropriate African music as long as it’s done earnestly”. Makes me feel very old but I can only imagine that this is flash in the pan sort of stuff since it’s so aurally unpleasant.

Dead Meadow… trippy… dreamy…