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Month: April 2015

Sunday Songs: Arcade Fire – “Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)”

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Driving home from running a 5k around Green Lake this morning, with The Suburbs on the stereo and Mount Rainier perfectly framed between some trees, it struck me.

My sister is younger than me, but I am, philosophically at least, of a newer generation than her. Continue reading

  • Date April 26, 2015
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Sunday Songs: Interpol – “Evil”

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Some days, you just don’t have a song in your head. Some days, you’re busy scheming and (Photo)shopping and enjoying the sounds of a baseball game or two on your TV, and music doesn’t factor into the equation.

But there’s always a baseline. Or, in this case, a bass line. Continue reading

  • Date April 19, 2015
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Sunday Songs: Waxahatchee – “Air”

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Every so often, a song comes along that, for a day or a week, is the only sound my brain can acknowledge.1

This is one of those situations, but this isn’t one of those songs. Continue reading

  • Date April 12, 2015
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Sunday Songs: Alvvays – “Archie, Marry Me”

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Birds chirp somewhere in the distance, and if sunshine were audible, it would sound a lot like these guitars.

A complete breakdown is less than three minutes away.

And that’s the beauty of great songwriting. Continue reading

  • Date April 5, 2015
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