
This 11-minute instrumental begins with alternating channels of psychedelic electric guitar, which fades after less than a minute. Bardo Pond - "Ganges": I often forget about Bardo Pond, but I always enjoy when one of their songs comes on. Wire - "Marooned": Chairs Missing is great of course.Ħ. "Lonely Lonely" is a good one, sounds like a fresh take on a singer-singwriter sound.ĥ. The album itself is pleasant enough, though I haven't listened to it closely. This is off her last album, Let it Die, which I bought because we love her cover of the Bee Gees song, "Inside and Out", that appears on it. Feist - "Lonely Lonely": People are raving about Feist's new album, The Reminder (though I have seen rumblings that it represents the adult-contemporification of indie rock). Russell's thin and distant vocal was initially off-putting for me, but not too much so. I do like his take on disco, but that has not translated into great reverence. Arthur Russell - "Let's Go Swimming (Walter Gibbons mix): Like a lot of people, I suspect, I only heard of Russell in the last few years curious (and unduly obsessed with filling in the gaps of post-punk), I bought the Soul Jazz comp The World of Arthur Russell, which focuses on his disco-related music. At our wedding, our first dance was to Holiday's version of "Love is Here to Stay".ģ. I tend to prefer Holiday to a singer like Ella Fitzgerald, though many of her songs seem to end on the same note, as she dramatically delivers the final words, which I do find a little off-putting. Billy Holiday - "You Turned the Tables on Me": I listen to very little jazz vocal. An electronic tone throughout much of it, alongside a sustained more or less wordless vocal is overtaken by some ecstatic, messy, sort of tribal drumming. Animal Collective are great live, but this track barely captures their chaotic glory. Animal Collective - "Tell it to the Mountain": From the reissued live Hollindagain.
