Music Recs, Week 3
Jan. 23rd, 2010 11:10 pmQuarter of the way through my reading response for this week ("Crises of Perception and Representation in Dorian Gray," hooray). I can totally finish this tonight. I hope.
While I take a break, have some music links. I wanted to upload them all to Grooveshark and use the nifty embedded widgets, but the site won't actually let me upload anything--I get to screen two of three, and then it laughs at me and grays out the button that would let me continue. So in part because of that, and in part because widgets of ones other people have uploaded play merry hell with my formatting, you get links.
Dawn Landes
Christina over at All About Hem mentioned this part-time Hem band member (she does backing vocals and plays glockenspiel) had a new album out, so I went and investigated. Most of it wasn't entirely to my taste, but I really liked Money in the Bank and Romeo. Both are musically upbeat (well, the acoustic singer/songwriter version of "upbeat," anyway) and lyrically not, which is a cool contrast. I like the break she puts into "yard" in the chorus of the first one, and the second has a nifty take off on "Sixteen Tons" near the end.
Karine Polwart
Daisy is another musically upbeat, lyrically downbeat song, and Faultlines is mournful on both fronts, but heartbreakingly gorgeous as well. Karine Polwart has a lovely soprano voice and a pretty Scottish accent.
Joshua Radin
We Are Okay is happy and peppy, although there's a bittersweet undertone to it. (Uh, that may be a theme for this round of recs.)
Laura Veirs
This is a bit of a cop-out, but oh, well. Anyway, Laura Veirs's "July Flame" is the single of the week from iTunes. I usually like about 25% of what they put up in that position, but this may well be my favorite of all the ones they've offered.
While I take a break, have some music links. I wanted to upload them all to Grooveshark and use the nifty embedded widgets, but the site won't actually let me upload anything--I get to screen two of three, and then it laughs at me and grays out the button that would let me continue. So in part because of that, and in part because widgets of ones other people have uploaded play merry hell with my formatting, you get links.
Dawn Landes
Christina over at All About Hem mentioned this part-time Hem band member (she does backing vocals and plays glockenspiel) had a new album out, so I went and investigated. Most of it wasn't entirely to my taste, but I really liked Money in the Bank and Romeo. Both are musically upbeat (well, the acoustic singer/songwriter version of "upbeat," anyway) and lyrically not, which is a cool contrast. I like the break she puts into "yard" in the chorus of the first one, and the second has a nifty take off on "Sixteen Tons" near the end.
Karine Polwart
Daisy is another musically upbeat, lyrically downbeat song, and Faultlines is mournful on both fronts, but heartbreakingly gorgeous as well. Karine Polwart has a lovely soprano voice and a pretty Scottish accent.
Joshua Radin
We Are Okay is happy and peppy, although there's a bittersweet undertone to it. (Uh, that may be a theme for this round of recs.)
Laura Veirs
This is a bit of a cop-out, but oh, well. Anyway, Laura Veirs's "July Flame" is the single of the week from iTunes. I usually like about 25% of what they put up in that position, but this may well be my favorite of all the ones they've offered.
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