New Music Tuesday

Dog Bite

Another lazy attempt for a band name I must say, but the music is decent.  This Atlanta based band formed by the keyboardist of Washed Out has put out an album full of chillwave synth and shoe gaze guitars.  The band hardly does anything new or groundbreaking, its pretty safe within these genres and doesn't dare venture out much.  You'd expect more from a Washed Out band member I would think.  Overall as an album, its alright, I just wish sometimes it wouldn't be so repetitive. However, it does have a couple songs that are decent.  The shoegazer "We" and the darker, moody 'Curesque' "L'oiseau Storm".  I know this isn't a glowing endorsement of the band, but I do like these two songs.  Read Pitchfork's review of it, they absolutely hated it, ha.

Melancholy Monday

Well, the Super Bowl is over, the post-party blues are setting in as you sit down in your chair at work and just stare outside....yep this Monday is especially melancholy.  For me, songs can be depressing/sad/melancholy for different reasons.  Lyrics is obviously one of those elements that add to a songs mood.  Another that I've discovered about myself that is sometimes more powerful is just simple tones, sounds, chords, whatever you want to call them that bring out the emotions in me for some reason. I love to listen to songs that have distant vocals and airy, noisy guitar riffs when I'm in kind of a 'blah' mood when maybe some heavy things are on your mind and you're just not up for some fast paced happy music, but something that is a little slower and repetitive.  The song isn't depressing and you'll probably wonder why I think it fits the 'melancholy' mood, but its hard to explain how this song and other songs like it are a perfect fit for my more gloomy moods.  Over the course of weeks I hope to be able to better explain myself with the songs that I post.

For this week, that song is "The Farthest City" by Moscow Olympics.
  

Also, lets not forget that one of the best actors of our generation, Philip Seymour Hoffman, died yesterday of an apparent drug overdose.  A very sad loss to say the least.