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This Sade cover gave me the warm & fuzzies — A nice blend of old & new, today & days-gone-by…

Check out Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith on Bandcamp.

She shares some DNA with Björk (to my ears) but is still wonderfully unique. I spent today listening to  “Ears (2016)” & her newest, “The Kid“, & was filled with the urge to share all of the beeps & boops.

I’ve been an ALVVAYS fan since the imminently catchy “Party Police” entered heavy rotation for me in 2014.  Their new LP is “Antisocialites” & below are some tunes, including my fave, “Dreams Tonite”…:

Alvvays – Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

Last Saturday night’s show was killer. MØ was her usual badass self.

This song killing everyone as always!!

#MØ #MeøwTour

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Music that’s soundtracking this past week:

• Alvvays, “Antisocialites” – “Party Police” never left my playlists so I was surprised & delighted when the new album dropped.
• Kllo – I’m way late to the game hearing this band, & there’s a new album, Backwater,  coming next month which has me excited.
• The National – Excited for the new LP coming in a few days, so TROUBLE WILL FIND ME has come back into heavy rotation. Heavy.
• SAFIA – Internal – This one takes a little while to sink its hooks into you, but “Over You” will make your body move like a premium Chef Faker Jam.
• Maya Jane Coles – Take Flight – Its hard to explain, but the old-school vibe of this one struck a chord with me immediately — maybe its just playing off of my love for Garbage, Portishead, Massive Attack, & the xx — but regardless: All the things.

More later.

This past weekend I was waiting in the car for my son, & it was late & dark & I picked the corner of the parking lot that was darkest. I sat in the car listening to music & began to leaf through a book of CDs that had gone unused for so long that they did indeed feel like relics. There was an un-labeled disc there among the Laurie Berkner (you know, for the kids!), the ‘July Jams’ mix, & the various Johnny Cash compilations.

So I slipped it into the player — then instantly felt a mixture of curiosity (I couldn’t remember the name of this band!) & nostalgia (I realized I had listened to this so many times — especially as I built a large set of bookcases for our house in Oregon — but that was about 10 years ago), & delight (this was still good).

Its a luxury to have time…. to (eventually) remember the songs & albums & bands, to sit quietly in the dark & think about all the things, & then enough still to move on…let it all be forgotten…& then bring it back again.

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