01/14 - Empty As A Pocket With Nothing To Lose

New year; new colours; new ways to listen. Top 5 soldiers on. Maybe this year someone will be interested.

Paul Simon - Diamonds On the Soles of her Shoes

Thanks to Boxen-Andreas for making this one of the very first songs I heard in 2014; a splendid remix blessed the dancefloor during our ApoCalypso-newyears-party. A favourite song from an album I've listened to for as long as I can remember.

Andrew Bird - Not a Robot, But a Ghost

I hear the clockwork in your core
Time strips the gears till you forget what they were for

Goldfrapp - Jo

Something rung extremely familiar here. It took a few seconds then I had it: it's Ces Gens La! Goldfrapp have sampled Jacques Brel! And me, well, I'll take any excuse to include one of the most wonderful performances ever... on triche....

Sigur Rós - Ísjaki

I'm starting to think Kveikur deserved a place on my top 10 albums 2014. It's growing for each listen...

Iron and Wine - Lovers' Revolution

Another grower from the year past. What a way he has with words still:

Now we're one
One of the parade wake widows walking home into the setting sun
One of the soldiers lost in the dreams that never lose the gun
One of the wise men wandering the podium without a tongue
One of the trophies tarnished by the mess we made of being young
One of the prayers one of the promises swallowed with our chewing gum
One of the deaf ears dumber all the time for all the years of drums
One of the wide-eyed soap boxes buried under Washington
One of the beat cops combing every sidewalk crack for love
One of the crowded stars uncounted when the map was done
One of the withered in the garden left to wonder when the rain will come

dat beard!