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- Buildings and Grounds, Papas Fritas
- Happy! Light! Great! I realized I had to buy this album
after hearing "Way You Walk" in Japan. Oh, and I totally understand why
it was popular in Japan, too. God, great album. "Another Day"
is joyous. "Lost in a Dream" is this droopy smiling hiccup of a
country-ish song. And Tony Goddess and Shivika Asthana have these great
singing dialogues. The album is like my ideal love affair -- light,
though a little bit distant, sweet but not syrupy, and warm, very warm.
- Oh, and the album title also gives me great pleasure, a little Tufts
nostalgia (that's the name of the university facility services
department).
- Everything Everything, Underworld (live)
- What a great album to do legal work to! Gets me all jazzed up, yet
doesn't distract me with too many lyrics. My last few opinion drafts and
all my paper edits have been done to this album. Total upper for doing
work. I suppose some will accuse me of abusing Underworld, that
Underworld should be listened to for better reasons than to help me do
legal work. Whatever.
- Caviar, Caviar
- Random pop stuff, a bit on the neo-retro edge, the kind appropriate
for the soundtrack of Charlie's Angels, not that I saw the movie, but I
liked the music. So there.
- 69 Love Songs, The Magnetic Fields, Vol. 1
- This album has me fall down ga-ga all over it. Like the sort of silly
happy music
that I so loved on the Rushmore soundtrack, but aware. "The Book
of Love is long
and boring; no one can lift the damn thing." Sweet, really sweet, but not
in that icky
unknowing way, nor in that sinister heart-string-tugging manipulative way.
Rather, in
that hey so what that I'm being sweet I know that so fuck you way.
Perfect for my
spring. I will listen to this one again and again and again.
-
A musical purchase based entirely off reading other people's web pages.
Thanks medianstrip
bunch.
maybe
- Kid A, Radiohead
- I only sort of like this, but I don't think it's because it's not a
good album. I'm just in more of the mood for happy poppy stuff (either
that, or electronica, which helps me do work), and Radiohead isn't really
either. My summer in Japan has had a huge effect on my music tastes.
Radiohead is more melancholy and, um, drawn out. Like a dilute chlorine
fog. I'm sure I'll be more in the mood again someday.
- Dopamine, Mitchell Froom
- Soul Coughing's breakup and Ani Difranco's loss of message has left me
musically bereft. This is the first album I've bought all year. Former
producer of
Soul Coughing, hey. With help from many of the artists he's produced.
It's not an
album I'm falling down ga-ga over, but it's intelligent and interesting,
which is more than
I can say for a lot of stuff I've been hearing these days. Each piece is
short, with
Froom's electronic-bassey-loungey instrumentals, and seems highly
influenced by the
featured performer involved with the piece, but hey, it's nice to have
friends.