Departures

"There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go."

Lights Shone Brighter. My Delicate Sun is My Sparklin' Sun.

You Are the Sun, Your Eyes Are the Sun

* taken from A Lily's "Wake:Sleep" (2006) *

Some hearts are true...

photo taken by Steven 

 

''We want punks in the palace 'cause punks got the loveliest dreams'

A Silver Mt. Zion - Blindblindblind (13 Blues for Thirteen Moons, 2008)

 

' They put angels in the electric chair
Straight-up angels in the electric chair
And no one knew or no one cared
But burning stars lit up their hair
And crawled to heaven on golden stairs

And oh! How we to and fro! To and fro! To and fro!
This is our torched estates
(and we are your sweet mistakes)
And all them vulgar kings on their dirty thrones
Who among us will avenge miss Nina Simone?

The hungry and the hanged, the damaged and the done
Striving 'long this spinning rock tumbling past the sun
Get through this life without killing anyone
And consider yourself golden

Lost a friend to cocaine, couple friends to smack
Troubled hearts map deserts and they rarely do come back
Lost a friend to oceans, lost a friend to hills
Lost a friend to suicide, lost a friend to pills
Lost a friend to monsters, lost a friend to shame
Lost a friend to marriage, lost a friend to blame
Lost a friend to worry and lost a friend to wealth
Lost a friend to stubborn pride and then I lost myself

I love my dog and she loves me
The world's a mess and so are we
She tumbles long green muddy fields, sick with joy and glee
And as she dreams sweet puppy dreams whimpering gently
There's fresh meat in the club tonight

God bless our dead marines!
Someone had an accident above the burning trees
While somewhere distant peacefully our vulgar princes sleep
Dead kids don't get photographed
God bless this century!

When the world is sick can't no one be well?
But I dreamt we were all beautiful and strong' 

A Silver Mt. Zion - God Bless Our Dead Marines (Horses in the Sky, 2005)

 

Some! Hearts! Are! True! Some! Hearts! Are! True! Some! Hearts! Are! True!

When you come, bring the sun

And for this post we travel to Europe...starting up north and heading south, towards the sun...

Iceland:
*Sigur Ros - Gobbledigook
This track (see lots of naked people playing in a forest... aka the video, here) is a taster from their new upcoming album, which will go by the title 'með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust'. Pretty catchy eh? Though it can also be loosely translated as "with a buzz in our ears we play endlessly", which is something you could at least attempt asking a sales assistant at your local record store for. They probably won't understand you, but still. It's better than ( ).
Their summer tour will take them across the world, from Mexico to Norway,
while Letters have no Arms will be lucky enough to catch them at Benicassim

Sweden:
*El Perro Del Mar - How did we forget
Taken from her beautiful new album From the Valley To The Stars
*El Perro Del Mar - Loneliness
*A Smile and a Ribbon - The Boy I wish I Never Met


France:
*Sebastien Tellier - Divine
France's 2008 Eurovision entry, and the reason why the French are just so much cooler than most of the world.
*M83 - Kim and Jessie

and 12 points go to me for not making any cheap Eurovision tie-in comments ;)

I do not exist. I donot exist. Ido notexist. Idonotexist.

I fell in love with a band. I fell in love once and almost completely. Well... actually I didn't only fall in love once, it happens to me every now and then. The remarkable thing in this case, however, is that we're talking about a post-hardcore band ('Say what?' Post-hardcore, apparently, although they're quite difficult to classify as a specific genre). Even weirder than that, they have some seriously God-praising lines here and there, since some of them are very religious (which usually means losing plenty of points in my book). To add insult to the injury, they've been around since, like, 2001 and have managed to elude my musical radar for about seven years. I'm talking about mewithoutYou, Pennsylvania-based band known for singer Aaron Weiss' distinct vocals (imagine a more indie version of Corey Taylor's voice - he can talk or sing or shout and sound just as amazing) and their deep and intricate lyrics. How come a band like that has the audacity to enter my top played last.fm artists after only three weeks of listening to them, when it takes most bands months and months and months? It's a mystery to me.

...Now it so happens that I mostly listen to mewithoutyou on the bus, on my way home from college and I think these following tracks are my favorites. I think that because every time they pop up on my mp3 player I shift nervously in my seat, wondering if the people sitting next to me have noticed that I'm getting the chills or that my hair is practically standing up on end or that I'm trying really hard to fight the sudden and overwhelming impulse to face them and give them a big, idiotic and soppy grin :)

In a Sweater Poorly Knit (Tip: best heard on headphones!)
A Glass Can Only Spill What It Contains
Nice and Blue (Pt. 2)
(all three taken from what is, in my opinion, their best album to date)