still here, kinda

Nothing much to report on the long haul.  A lot of music this year though, don’t you think?  A lot.  I’m blown away by what’s still to come, namely Sleigh Bells, The Hold Steady, The National.  A few words:

The Jonsi album is pretty good… it sounds a lot like the songs  that might’ve come after the first couple of tracks from the last Sigur Ros album, which really fills a gap for me.  The songs are happy, summery, crowded like a Korean subway car with lovely noise and melody.  Uplifting, jam-packed-happy stuff.  Like a firecracker.  The Jonsi-singing-in-English bit is a little strange for me though.  I don’t know if I’ll get used to it or if it might just dissuade me from liking the album more.

This new Titus Andronicus album is really tossing me around as well.  I never liked the debut much, but this one really reminds me that rock records can be as creatively forward as Lifted… was.  Dude totally sounds like Conor Oberst though, so there’s something there.  It takes about as much away (maybe) from the album as Jonsi does (maybe) by singing in English.

We’ll see.

This new Eluvium album is pretty great… and now I’ve never heard much Eluvium before but this one’s important (supposedly) because the guy is singing for once.  He sounds all right.  The songs are airy and kinda sound exactly like you’d expect songs from an artist named “Eluvium” to sound.  Anyways I expect it’s the kind of album you need to hear via headphone for it to gain some ground, so I’m going to do that when I get the chance.

Tunng has a new album out.  I think I’m the only Tunng fan I know, so I’ll leave it at that.

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I’m considering putting together a little decade-end bunch-of-narratives about the music I’ve heard to get me where I am today, but we’ll see if that gets off the ground.  Anyways.  Boring post.