Hello and welcome to another pared down version of Work Tunes.
This week there's a couple of new artists for me in Blind Pilot and Jack Johnson. Yes, I have honestly heard no Jack Johnson (well apart from that song he did where Ben Stiller was in the film clip). I'm also looking forward to the remix version of Gil Scott-Heron's 2010 release I'm New Here - done by Jamie XX and called We're New Here.
This is what it all looks like.
- Jack Johnson - To The Sea
- Beach Fossils – What A Pleasure
- Hilltop Hoods - A Matter Of Time
- Train of Thought - Moving Heads
- J Mascis - Several Shades of Why
- REM - Collapse Into Now
- The Murmurs - Pristine Smut
- Vetiver - To Find Me Gone
- Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie XX - We're New Here
- Blind Pilot - 3 Rounds and a Sound
Top 5 Artists Last Week
- Dolorean
- Snoop Doggy Dog
- Tori Amos
- Sonic Youth
- Mellow Drum Addict
Song of the Week : Dolorean - Country Clutter
I know a couple weeks back in a daze of being newly smitten with Dolorean I picked one of their songs. It was a good song, but probably not a good representation of them. The other day, my copy of their latest album The Unfazed arrived. This track, Country Clutter is more true to why I really like them. It’s interesting how it shuffles along in a bit of a death march as well as building at points like it’s about to kick the distortion pedal on. Lyrically, it’s honest and angry and a little bit bitter, which I always like. Enjoy!
Postscript
Most of this post was cobbled together prior to today. I saved this draft before hearing about the earthquake in Japan. I debated whether to just post it without acknowledging that tragedy, but I just couldn't do it.
The footage I've seen tonight is impossible to ignore. The thick slow sludge of the ocean around Sendai swallowing the farm lands and the vast tracts of sheds; sweeping houses and vehicles and fences along, like some cheesy black blob from a 1950s sci-fi film. I'm not one for prayer, but I do hope with every ounce of my own being that no more lives are lost. The last I heard, more than 200 bodies had washed up on the beach. It's terrifying and horrid and all too big to fathom. 200 lives or 200,000+ as on Boxing Day, 2002, it makes no difference; one is too many.
起死回生 kishi kaisei :Wake from death and return to life.
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