This track is from his newest album, "Wolves & Wishes," which I guess kind of makes it the title track. I don't have any particular reason for posting this one, other than that it was what rocked out to on my commute home today. A lot of Dosh's work has a more hip hop feel to it, often with slow melodies on top of double-time beats, or vice versa. In this piece, most of the parts work at a similar pace, with swift, overlapping melodic lines on synthesizer and sax over a peppy drum beat, giving the whole thing an unusually upbeat feeling.
Is this thing on? Test....test.
So it's been a while. I used to keep up with this whole daily MP3 thing on this here little Vox blog, but it's been *checks archives* just over a year since I actually did anything here. In fact, I was 27 when I stopped this. Now I'm 29.
A lot has happened and I'm not going to tell you about any of it. This is not the place for me to do that, and no one is here to read it anyways (if anyone is here to read this at all).
But I'm going to try it again. As a refresher: this is a pseudo-daily excercise in sharing music. One song a day, plus one to two paragraphs of commentary. New music, old music, long time favorites and fresh discoveries. Novelties, gems, guilty pleasures. Whatever. No promises, I may skip days or disappear completely (again). So we'll see where this goes.
To start off, here is a song by my favorite band from Bellingham. I only know one band from Bellingham (other than Death Cab For Cutie, who got their start there), but still. I can't imagine liking another one better than I Love You Avalanche. It's a solo-ish project that I saw opening for a Northen California band called the Americas last year. Everything I've heard from her/them is super lo-fi, covered in tape hiss and room noise, but the sweetness of the songs shines through, and the layers of vocals are perfectly wispy and tender. This song in particular kills me. It gets stuck in my head from time to time, and I find myself needing to listen to it regularly. The lyrics, the wavery vocal melody in the bridge, the Major lift into the chorus, the overlapping counterpoints towards the end....it's like this song came forth as a fully formed ideal of the solo female folk song. It's also a perfect song for my life at the moment, all about friendship and loss, exciting and bittersweet, painful and exhilirating all at once. I hope you love it as much as I do.
We finally have reception.
I don't know if you can fully understand how utterly freaking fantastic that little thing is.
Our television is finally receiving clear pictures.
Once upon a time we got clear reception. That was way back in our Pay TV days. Back when it was analogue. Back when we could afford it. Then Foxtel changed its service to digital and hiked its price up. We decided to get ADSL internet instead and bought a set of rabbit ears for on top of the television (not only do our drains not work but the roof-top antenna has never worked either. We live under such third world conditions). Since then everything has been very fuzzy and vague. Which is fine if you're drinking, but not so fine under any other circumstances.
I bought a cheap digital set-top box online a few weeks ago, thinking that if nothing else we might be able to get clear digital TV. I wasn't going to get my hopes up because the digital set-top box would still be plugged into the rabbit-ears which may not have been up to the task. Hello pleasant surprise! Not only do we get the digital channels, the normal free-to-air channels are coming in as clear as a bell too! (Except Channel 31, which wouldn't bother me except a friend of ours is in one of the TV shows on that channel.)
Woo hoo! I'm off to watch telly now. If only there was something on worth watching....
What are your top five break-up songs?
Submitted by gt.
I've only got one.
When you've got a song like this you don't need any more break-up songs. ;-)
I'm alive. Just to let you all know that.
I've strained the muscles in my back so I haven't been able to sit at the computer much (too much time sitting in a bad position on a bad chair is what injured my back in the first place). But don't worry. You haven't missed anything exciting. I lead an amazingly boring life after all.
