Oh, hello! Nice to see you again! Did you do something to your hair or lose weight? You look great. How's your mom? I'm not very good at keeping this thing updated, huh? I'm sorry. I think about blogging a lot. Does that count? You sure? Alright, didn't think so but it was worth a shot. I tend to be more productive when under deadlines and receiving paychecks.I have been feasting my ears on copious amounts of delicious music lately. My speakers and ears are satiated as hell. Some of my favorite artists are coming out with albums and basically just pumping out straight greatness. I feel like this happens every spring. I'm sorry I've been hogging it all but I'm ready to share now. I hope you're hungry. I'm really excited to share these. My three songs that I can't stop listening to this week/month arrrrreeeeeeee (drumroll please):
This week, Cults streamed their eponymous (I have been dying to utilize that word in a sentence) debut album on NPR. As expected, it is everything I thought it could be. They have been slowly releasing records (about 4 or 5) for a few months now and I fell in love with each. It's not all that surprising that I'm enamored with the whole album. I've been streaming the album for a couple days at this point and the song that has become my best friend is, "Bumper." It's a little duet between Madeline Follin and Brian Oblivion. (How cool is that last name?) I'm a huge fan of call back duets. There is something really charming about this song. It sounds like it's a happy song but when you listen closely, you'll hear otherwise. I love when sad songs disguise themselves.
Jim James. Jim James. Jim James. Why is your voice perfect? Why are you guys such amazing songsmiths? I'm not complaining. Sometimes it's just really hard to handle so much greatness in a few short minutes. This song is immediately likable. I'm talkin' like, within 20 seconds likable. This song is off their newest, coming-out-soon album (May 31), Circuital. I already have it because I'm like, really cool. If this song comes on in the car and I'm really close to my place, naturally I'm driving past it and listening to this song all the way through. This song is my, "Golden," from It Still Moves. Jim James can't sing a ballad I don't like. As Ralph Wiggum would say, "That's unpossible."
By now, I'm sure everyone has heard, "Pumped Up Kicks." That is the song that turned me on to this band as I'm sure it did for pretty much everyone. I think I got on that bus a little late but I'm just happy I boarded cause that song is right in my wheelhouse. I saw this band when I was at Coachella only knowing that one song. My brother and I thought we were hilarious when we started chanting, "Play that song! Play that song!" I'm certain everyone else around us probably being real fans, hated us. I still think it's funny. Anyway, it inspired me to dig a little deeper, do a little research and see if they were only good for that one song or if they really were legit. I'm happy to report, they're legit. Turns out, "Houdini" is right in my wheelhouse as well. They remind me a lot of Cold War Kids and MGMT at certain points throughout this song. If CWK and MGMT got together and had drunken sex, they'd make a baby that sounded like this. I don't know why the sex had to be drunken but it just did, ok? Enjoy.
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