Current music
I dunno if you guys know me well at all, but if you do, you know that I get kinda obsessed with music. Not in the typical ‘omg, have you heard so-and-so’s new album?!’ kind of obsessed. No, I find some band that I’m into that week and listen the heck out of them. It may last a couple weeks, actually. Recently my couple of weeks obsession was She Wants Revenge. It’s like Joy Division meets Interpol meets The Cure. Something like that, anyway. Fairly talented guys (two) in that group, and cool lyrics.
Lately I’ve re/discovered a couple bands I hadn’t heard in a while.
Lamb - likened to the Portishead style – came out about the same time. I think they classify it similarly as trip-hop. It’s an interesting style. Not as moany as Portishead. A little more schizophrenic. Still good though.
TV on the Radio – a band Mark shared with me. I’m digging it. It’s like Modest Mouse meets Built to Spill meets a dive bar. I’m not sure how to describe it better than that, especially since most of you are lost on the bands so far anyways.
Regina Spektor – came onto my Pandora radio and I’ve been into her ever since. I like her singing cadence and she has a sweet, perky voice and an interesting style. I’d recommend her to the average person.
My Brightest Diamond – lovely singer, a bit melancholy, but not in the Fiona Apple kind of melancholy. Sweet melancholy. Like you’re watching a butterfly die or something. Sarah McLachlan without the angst.
Schiller - ambient German techno. Kinda. And then there are some songs that are more your regular German melodic electronic music. Not bad and their Voyage album is a nice.. voyage.. through their style.
Radiohead - this one I’m going to get album specific and say In Rainbows. Mark gave me this album a while back, and as he didn’t label the disc itself, I had no idea where it went when I moved. I was flipping through my cd case the other day while I was driving and came across some blank disc. It wasn’t in it’s proper place alphabetically, so I was confused when it started playing, but was pleasantly surprised. I really dig 90% of this album, as opposed to my normal 2 or so songs per album of theirs. (While the album as a whole is good, there are really only about two songs on it that I’m very fond of on it. By very fond, I mean I play them a couple times in a row when the disc comes to them.)
That’s good enough for now. I just wanted to share a bit with you guys for now. If I think of it, I’ll update musical obsessions more often.