Built an opera house for you in the deepest jungle
& I walked across its stage singing with my eyes closed

I’ve got a love for you I just can’t escape
All of my love for you cuts me like barbed wire

I was meant to love you & always keep you in my life
I was meant to love you, I knew I loved you at first sight

– “Opera House“

Shortest time between hearing a new band for the first time & then getting a vinyl copy of the LP? Maybe this is it.

Its like a wonderful mix of my wistful, yearning, younger self’s heavy rotation of Cowboy Junkies, Galaxie 500, & Mazzy Star, with a little bit of a slowed-down Pixies vibe.  Plus I’m a sucker for lyrical, pining songs of lost love.

Even though the entire Cigarettes After Sex (yea., don’t love that name…) collection of songs sound pretty much the same, each song is a little gem, like facets of larger whole…  Been on heavy rotation for a month & I haven’t tired of it yet.

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.

Alvvays – Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

This song killing everyone as always!!

#MØ #MeøwTour

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• 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.

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I hide my fears
way down, way down
where you dry your tears
way down, way down

I can’t keep living like this
trying to remember your kiss
you made my silly little dreams
oh I don’t wanna fall asleep
We’re spinning out of control
my teeth are shaking in the cold
I can’t keep living like this
I know

We were born apart
too old, too old
& we were torn apart
you know, you know

that there are tangerine skies
awaiting our failing eyes
‘time leads to healing’ you said
time leads to dying leads to dead
I’m losing sight of what’s right
you’re awkward putting up a fight

this was the way it began
this will be the way it ends
way down, way down
way down, way down
way down, way down

• The Washboard Abs, “Way Down” [on Bandcamp]

Been listening to these LPs for weeks. Go buy them now…its “name your price” so you can’t complain.

My moon, oh my moon
Not even into
Another eternity
Will stop your lovely orbiting
I had held it a world away
Until my body began to say
I need not one thing more
Oh, wrap the ground around
Your gentle winding mind
Oh, guard the pounding sound
Breathe in your fiery air
Oh, wrap the ground around
Give back an hungrier stare
Oh, guard the pounding sound
You be the moon I’ll be the earth
And when we burst
Start over, oh darling
Begin again
Begin again
Begin again

http://youtu.be/Zr5mtKSbd7M

New Purity Ring album is pretty kick-ass, y’all. I’m also a huge fan of the tracks “Heartsigh“, “Bodyache“, & “Flood on the Floor“

~

/… I haven’t finished yet / I still have a tattoo to get / That says I’m living in the moment. / ~ http://t.co/Q8oWReHylc

— matt adkins (@m_adkins) December 15, 2014

The City Council recently moved to name “dance” as the official town language.

This measure has been met with tense debate and raised voices over the past several weeks. Proponents say we need a unified language, as it will save money on municipal signage and documentation — not to mention bring us together as a community.

“The poetry of the human body,” they said, while quickly pulling in their elbows and turning their bowler hats down over their eyes in an obvious tribute to Bob Fosse, “mates physical being with mental necessity; a marriage that brings purpose to our quickly rotting living corpses.”

Opponents say that this move, if voted into law, is discriminatory against the physically handicapped. Also, less than 10% of Night Vale citizens have ever taken a single dance lesson — let alone achieved lifelong mastery of one of the most ethereal and difficult-to-grasp art forms.

One opponent, who asked to remain nameless out of fear of retribution, told us the bill was entirely funded by lobbyists from Cheryl’s Little Princesses Dance Studio.

“Just follow the money,” they said.

Then the anonymous insider’s pupils grew until they eclipsed the whites. Their tongue slid out from their knife gash of a grin, and their hair would not stop graying and growing.

A final vote is expected on Tuesday.

Pretty excited to realize that I still have 38 episodes left of Welcome to Night Vale.