Song of the Day: Rich Aucoin – We’re All Dying To Live :: Public Publication EP / Over The Top! LP
Song of the Day: Rich Aucoin – We’re All Dying To Live :: Public Publication EP / Over The Top! LP Album of the day is more accurate, I guess. Aucoin (a friend describes him as Canada’s Sufjan Stevens) put out an album where he collaborates with 500 different Canadian musicians. As if that weren’t … Continue reading
Song of the Day: A Silver Mount Zion – Blown-Out Joy
Song of the Day: A Silver Mt. Zion – Blown-out Joy From Heaven’s Mercied Hole Tonight. The Republik. It won’t disappoint. (Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
Song of the Day: The Stampeders – Sweet City Woman
Song of the Day: The Stampeders – Sweet City Woman “She feeds me love and tenderness and macaroons” — find me a sweeter sentiment than that. A Calgary classic for those of us with uncomfortably wholesome tendencies. (Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
The Dodos on Jimmy Fallon
Best Stuff 2011: Not-so-new music edition
In keeping with the self-centredness on this blog, this post will not be about the best music that came out in 2011. That post is still to come, and will be woefully under-informed, as my temporary retirement from music criticism has kept me at a disconcerting distance from the cuttingest-of-edges in modern music. Instead, here are … Continue reading
MoNM 2011 month-end catch-up: Days 14 to 20
Seven albums, 50 words each: D’Angelo – Voodoo (2000, Cheeba Sound/Virgin) The “neo-soul” progenitor’s second album is as silky smooth as you’d expect, locking into effortless grooves throughout and riding them for absolutely everything they’re worth. ?uestlove, Raphael Saadiq, Method & Redman, Roy Hargrove and more flesh out the sparse setting, but D’Angelo’s falsetto is … Continue reading
MONM 2011 Day 10: Dixie’s Death Pool – The Man With Flowering Hands
Dixie’s Death Pool – The Man With Flowering Hands (2011, Drip Audio) I have a bad habit habit of forming opinions of albums based on their opening few seconds. That’s not to say I’ll discount an album if it doesn’t win me over in ten seconds or less, but if those opening seconds are strong … Continue reading
MONM 2011 Day 9: Sandro Perri’s Impossible Spaces
Sandro Perri – Impossible Spaces (2011, Constellation) There’s something of a kinship between Perri’s Impossible Spaces and Destroyer’s Kaputt. Spaces isn’t anywhere near as glossy (although it’s not exactly raw, either), and the lack of soaring ’80s sax solos also means it’s less likely to be accused of intentional kitsch, but both of them are … Continue reading
MONM 2011 Day 7: Feist’s Metals
Feist – Metals (Arts & Crafts, 2011) For someone who’s been knocked in some circles as the new face of easy listening, Feist has always had plenty of modes of locomotion. She could slink, bounce, swing, or float whenever she saw fit, throwing in a bit of disco strut to balance out the sweetheart pop … Continue reading
Monday Mixtape: Polaris Shortlist Edition
Tonight marks the sixth time that the Polaris Music Prize will crown the country’s most artistically successful album, decided through a long and arcane process that essentially boils down to: Asking a bunch of people what they think Asking them again, in the hopes that their taste has improved Gathering an elite group of cultural … Continue reading
The Consumption 