grass_lazy: September 2011

Saturday, September 17, 2011

The Comeback

Almost 3 months down the line since my last post and I look at my significantly more bloated music library to pick out the gems that have kept me so absent from everything else. Following my post about Kyle Andrews and Sushi I went on to listen to You Always Make Me Smile more than 50 times in this little while. The pop happiness it wands out is enough to keep the track alive in my opinion. Scroll down to see the original post where I popped the record breaking YouTube video in.

Since then the big finds which will get their own posts shortly have been tracks off the new Little Dragon, Benjamin Francis Leftwich, Kooks, Motopony and Kills albums'. Songs and posts are coming!

Freelance Whales - Location

The Freelance Whales have been around for a solid few years now and I had never heard of them until I saw that their track Location was the most downloaded song on a blog I was checking out. So I got hold of their album and it is great. The album uses quite a bit of synth and is not something that will stick with me for years, but continuing this post two months since it was started I can say that those songs don't live long, but they hold a grip for a small fix. Location however will prove a little more timeless.

"Thinking softly what a tinder box we live in,

and what a flammable heart I've been given..."

Download it Here

The Sounds of Reason

On Music

I think you need to listen to music to understand the world. Every human is like this combination lock of experiences that is so unique and complex that it can never be cracked. With musical people, their lives play they’re instruments. With a band, there are a number of impossibly different people, channelling their lives into a line of music, which words can’t describe, but it shares something about that person. When these musicians make melodies and rhythms that complement one another and fit in, you get so much feeling and such a story conveyed that there are songs powerful enough to connect to your core. - Anon

“Music is what feelings sound like.” - Anon

“Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music” - Sergei Rachmaninov

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent” – Victor Hugo

Without music life would be a mistake. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. ~Maya Angelou

On Whisky

"Whisky is liquid sunshine." - George Bernard Shaw

"There are two things a Highlander likes naked, and one of them is malt whisky." – Scottish Proverb

"We frequently hear of people dying from too much drinking. That this happens is a matter of record. But the blame is always placed on whisky. Why this should be I never could understand. You can die from drinking too much of anything — coffee, water, milk, soft drinks and all such stuff as that. And so as long as the presence of death lurks with anyone who goes through the simple act of swallowing. I will make mine whisky." - W.C. Fields, 1880-1946

“Too much of anything is bad, but too much of good whisky is barely enough.” –Mark Twain

On Style

Style is something that stays with you forever, it is part of who you are. Meanwhile fashion is a trend that you can follow, that is changing. Style is more the inner you, which radiates outwards whereas fashion is something you cover the outside with, hoping to affect your inner. - Quote adapted from an interview with Guerre