and let’s give it up for extra long closing tracks

Polvo – A Link In The Chain

Wire-stretched indie-rock that throws itself into turmoil only to return, at the end, to the calmer moments of the beginning.  Great groove.

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – More News From Nowhere

Every so often I get the sense that I’ve already written about a certain song I’m about to post… this is one of those songs.  Hell, maybe I have — I didn’t check.  It’s the kind of song you love immediately, thrice — when the first guitar notes ring in and then again when Cave starts his deep-deep singing about surreal descriptions, and lastly at the chorus, which thankfully returns about fifty times over (just try to get sick of it).  In general it’s pretty sexy, too.  But what did you expect?  Goodbye.

[photo by Joe McNally, I'm pretty sure]