Time is not on my side at the moment. I wrestle and wrangle with it and I keep coming out having lost another week. As Bright Eyes once put it: I keep doing these to-do-lists and nothing gets crossed out. Well, I'm damned if I'm not gonna get another few Top 5 lists out before the year is over. Important matters.
Yamasuki - Yama Yama
Mag - Riot On Your Own
Richard Thompson - I Misunderstood
A record that's been on my iPhone for a while lately is Action Packed: The Best of the Capitol Years, with some selections from Richard Thompson's solo career. He's one of those songwriters that, even when he veers into what should be cheesy territory, there's a lyric, a phrasing, or a composition twist that makes it undenyingly something else, somethign intelligent and gripping.
Ibeyi - River
Something as precious as a French-Cuban twin duo singing about West African religion in English and Yoruba. Music to my ears.
Loosegoats - Stum Mountain Man
It's late autumn so I'm giving in to some nostalgia for past times, past infatuations and past gigs.
