Well shucks, it’s been an awful long and eventful week, which basically means you’re in for a really long and boring entry, because every single damn thing that happened was really goshdarn important. I remember back when I started this thing if I went four days without a bumbling journal entry I’d say “Don’t […]

Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea from In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (1999) /indie sunshine folk/((“Anna’s ghost all around,hear her voice as it’s rolling and ringing through me…Soft and sweet,how the notes all bend and reach above the trees.”Heart melting in the soft sun, tempered by the shining wind.))

Clarence “Citizen Cope” Greenwood’s descriptively titled sophomore disc is an unfortunate step-down, or at least sideways, from his promising but not spectacular self-titled debut. Greenwood’s music is an interesting hybrid between downtempo, hip hop, and reggae. He croons and half raps lyrics about our troubled times, but they are too specific to carry universal import […]

Josh Ritter - California from Hello Starling (2003) /folk pop/((“Sunset Boulevard will strip for money;Mulholland is a long drag for the lonely hearts;down along the Imperial Valleyruns a river of homelessness and cinema stars.Don’t saythe trip’s been donea hundred thousand times…cause this oneis mine”Blue and sunset orange light in your sheltered eyes. The evening […]

The Sadies wsg Rick White Live at Call The Office in London - September 24th, 2004
Rick White

The Sadies

Brian Wilson - Good Vibrations from SMiLE (2004) /sunshine pop/((“I, I love the colorful clothes she wearsand she’s already working on my brain.I, I only looked in her eyes,but I picked up something I just can’t explain. Im pickin up good vibrations. Shes giving me excitations. Gotta keep those lovin good vibrations a happenin […]

I’d say it’s fairly evident that U2 plays a large part in my life. Not so much these days, as I’ve been lead astray by other magnificent musics and slightly disillusioned by the last album, but in the end I keep coming back. U2 was the first band I loved, I have heard […]

The Sadies like to defy easy categorization. Their sound takes on elements of bluegrass, country rock, surf, and psychedelia, but it’s not such a strange combination: all these allegedly disparate styles sound natural together.
Favourite Colours is a wash of deep bass, clear-ringing picked steel and good old fashioned country twang. The melodies themselves are straightforward […]

R.E.M. - The Outsiders (feat. Q-Tip) from Around the Sun (2004) /poprock/((“You took me to the restaraunt where we first met, knocked a futureshock crowbar upside my head. I got caught with the stop of a tick-tock tick-tock clock, when you told me what you knew. Lost in the moment the day that […]

This was in general going to be an autumnal compilation of crispy air songs to herald a young boy moving into a new home and setting up a new life, though it changed around quite a lot.