Sheets of rain are attacking my windowpane from highly imaginative angles. This playlist is a mood.
Angel Olsen - Impasse
Saw Angel live on Tuesday, and now I'm trying to figure out what overused clichés could be employed to liken the force of the performance with. Some kind of storm perhaps? Or something geological, like an eruption/explosion? Best perhaps to sidestep the similes all together and simply imply that a live reindition of this and other recent songs is something one better braze oneself for. Above the larm of the full-fledged band, her voice adds a sort of pummelling punch coming for the audience's sternum.
Sharon van Etten - Beaten Down
This was released just the other day. It's subtle, creeping and cleverly persuasive. By the time the chorus comes around for a third time, the jump from that low gurgle "it ain't.." to the high soaring "...beaten down" has become an addiction. And Sharon looks hella cool.
Bill Callahan - One Fine Morning
The doom and gloom will be met with a stoic, beauty-loving mind.
When the earth turns cold, and the earth turns black Will I feel you riding on my back? For I am a part of the road The hardest part
The Smashing Pumpkins - Soma
The teenager inside jumps out and wants to listen to angsty Smashing Pumpkins from when they were still great, had the best guitar solos, and wrote songs about Brave New World-drugs, anger and loneliness.
Scott Walker - Phrasing
Angst in a different, more artful guise, with some dissonant samba thrown in for good measure.
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