Feb 08 2010

Media Monday – 02/08/2010

Category: Media & More,Music In My Ears — dryvetyme @ 12:00

Though today’s batch of content is much lighter than that from the past few weeks, it doesn’t diminish the quality of what I have for you today. Enjoy!

  1. Music:
    a. “Never Turn Around” – Gobotron
    b. “Two Kids” – Strand Of Oaks
    c. “Beg You To Stay” – Smile Smile
    d. “Giant Stairs” – A Weather
    e. “Halcyon Days” – So Cow
    f. “Closer” – The Butterfly Explosion
    g. “Chemistry” – The Butterfly Explosion
    h. “Hypermode” – A Shoreline Dream
  2. Video:
    a. “West Coast” – Junk Culture
    b. “Molly’s Vertigo” – Acrylics
    c. “Beg You To Stay” – Smile Smile
    d. “You Stay. I Go. No Following.” – Look Mexico

Feb 08 2010

Ben + Vesper – LuvInIdleness EP

Category: Music In My Ears — dryvetyme @ 07:00

Ben + Vesper
LuvInIdleness EP
Sounds Familyre; 2010

LuvInIdleness

Sometimes, no matter how hard someone might work to carve out his/her own artistic identity, it’s nearly impossible to escape one’s influences. And that’s really OK in my book, as long as that artist openly acknowledges what the rest of us are hearing in the music. Such is the situation with Ben + Vesper on their brand new EP, entitled LuvInIdleness. As in, even if you didn’t know that this married couple was signed to the Danielson Family record label and that Sufjan Stevens produced this project, those are the sonic touchstones you’d probably use to describe the music. These five songs bespeak of the sort of twee indie-pop that many of us have extolled as achingly beautiful on records like Seven Swans and Illinois, striking that oh-so-familiar balance between light-hearted and melancholy.
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