13/18 - I Think Everything Counts A Little More Than We Think

Summer comes bowling down the road over oozing fresh asphalt and shorn alkanet stalks.

Damien Jurado - Over Rainbows and Rainier

With the warmth: a softening of the insides, a seeping through of sentiments, a rediscovery in gusts of fragrance of mislaid memories.

The National - Ada

I saw girls in their summertime dresses. Saw them putting make up on during their morning commute. Saw sun-speckled skin and spellbinder dimples. I saw a video of my nephew running naked across my parents' lawn. Saw excitement and enthralment. And none of it could be translated. None quite reached through social media or a rational mindset.         

Kent - Mannen I Den Vita Hatten (16 År Senare)

What's missing, then, is this: the country of youth; a direct line of contact with naïve ambitions; a stepping stone between floating sheets of relations drifting apart; an antidote to atrophying anxiety. The next swift that whirs past on low height I'll grab the legs of and let carry me across the gulf.

Bob Marley & The Wailers - Duppy Conqueror

Because upheaval is within my power. Next week I'll be in a new place. "The world takes its form hourly by a weighing of things at hand", but there is time yet to tip the scales. Yes me friend, we are the street again.

bob hund - Det skulle vara lätt för mig att säga att jag inte hittar hem men det gör jag; tror jag

The best song title in music history. One of the most cathartic outros in the same. Sweden in my heart, clouds at my back, and a future thrillingly unknown.

12/18 - As We Blow Through The Square

The theme of this week is not compromises. 

Childish Gambino - This Is America

Not that anyone internet-savvy enough to check this blog isn't already aware of this little bit of galvanising zeitgeist, but I just wanted to underline that even without it's astounding video, it's a really, really great bit of music. That bass, and the zig-zagging stop-and-start, soft-and-hard structure of it all...

Sudan Archives - Nont For Sale

This my life, don't block the sun
This is my seat, can't you tell
This my time, don't waste it up
This is my land, not for sale

The Paradise Bangkok Molam International Band - Kwang Noi Chaolay

Threw caution to the wind. Got caution slapped across my face. Threw it the other way. It blew off. A bounce came in my step. Jangly, wobbling, but a bounce nevertheless. With it, an insistence, pumping through every limb. Some strange, exotic feeling of nowness, of farawayness, of beckoning new rhythms of life.

Jlin - Hatshepsut

The bees, the mice, the woodlice, the badgers, the ants, the pigeons, the parakeets, the service robots, the arachnids, the knotweed, the hermits, the rats, the feral cats, the prisoners, the foxes, the hybrids, the mould-creatures, the hackers; they all came marching out of the wreckage of the city. This was their parade music.

BNNT - God Is Nothing More Than An Acoustic Hallucination

"Hello, I've found a drumbeat that it's impossible to get sick of."
"Great, just keep playing it then. For a long time."

11/18 - The Random Minor Note You Hear In Major Songs

It has been a while. The while was spent on delightful weekends in Norway and Glasgow. Now I can finally sum the while up in music:

Damien Jurado - Ohio

With the full length windows open. Waterfalls cascading down the cliffs behind the house. Bergen spread out below us. Robin put on a classic. We had what's considered a good view. A view of the landscape. A view of time. A view on friendship and longing and places where one could potentially live. It's been a long time. A real long time.

Vampire Weekend - M79

Kelvingrove Park when it's sunny in Glasgow makes me warm and gooey inside. And if spring paints a pretty picture, Vampire Weekend's M79 is the perfect instagram filter to boost its warm tones.

Charm your way across the Khyber Pass

Janelle Monáe - I Like That

As if it wasn't already clear what the album of the year was gonna be...

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Ballad of Robert Moore and Betty Coltrane

Compelling and propelling badassery.

Cosmo Sheldrake - Come Along

Alright, the scene has been set. Now, summer. Now, adventures. Now, take me away from the humdrum!