This song sounds like a case of “I thought maybe we were more than just friends” if I ever heard one. Classic overstepping of boundaries, and now the singer just doesn’t know how to classify things with this person, but he is adamant in that he does not want it to be called love. I love how the sound of Fiction Family is so far gone from both Switchfoot and Nickel Creek, as well as even the solo works of Jon Foreman.
When Saturday approaches and the clock won’t fly by, these songs should keep you occupied for a good, ten minutes. May I recommend burning old depressing pictures, and snapping old mix cd’s in half. If it doesn’t make the emotional pain go away, at least you have something physical to show for you frustrations.
But as for me, I’ll be enjoying Valentine’s Day with my girlfriend.
anyways…
I hope you ears don’t get their feelings hurt, and spend the rest of the valentines dance crying in a corner where nobody can see you, except for the 7th grade history teacher who awkwardly approaches you to calm you down and help, but instead calls attention to your sad pathetic self.
January isn’t over and I am already excited about what a great year 2009 is going to be for music. Now I have no idea what all we are going to see get released beyond the month of June, but the releases I am aware of for the first half of the year have gotten me real excited. So I thought I would let you all share in this excitement with me. Now this list is numbered, but please keep in mind that I spent maybe 2 minutes on the order, in case some of these seem way out of wack to you.
20.Dave Matthews Band
Right now I don’t know much about this one, except that a new album is due out April 14th. The records is still unnamed and even unheard as they just dropped into the studio last week to begin recording. I know that DMB doesn’t really fit with a lot of the music we cover, but we’re all crossing our fingers, hoping that he will take us back to our middle school days and shock the music world by proving that he still has the chops to write a great record. I have a feeling that after losing their saxophonist Leroi Moore to an ATV accident this summer that they will all be really inspired to do something great in his name. And I don’t think that their music will suffer too much from his loss. Don’t get me wrong, he was pretty incredible. But the guy they have replacing him, Jeff Coffin, of Bela Fleck and the Flecktones is no slouch. All this to say, that I do not believe myself foolish to expect great things from these guys once again.
On the 20th of this month, Antony and the Johnsons will release their 3rd full-length studio album, The Crying Light. The extremely creepy album art accompanying these new songs features a 1977 portrait of renowned Butoh dancer, Kazuo Ohno. “He is kind of like my art parent,” says Hegarty abotu the great dancer he has dedicated the new album to. He is definitely a strange one, but boy does he have an incredible voice. I continue to be impressed with both his songwriting and his vocal abilities. After sampling two tracks from the forthcoming album, I doubt he will disapoint any time soon.
From all that I have read and heard, this album will have more in common with last year’s Another World EP than featuring the same subject on the cover. Musically it is supposed to sound similar to and build upon their most previous work. Which sounds great to me, because I thought Another World had some of the best work yet.
Here is the tracklist for The Crying Light:
01 “Her Eyes Are Underneath The Ground”
02 “Epilepsy Is Dancing”
03 “One Dove”
04 “Kiss My Name”
05 “The Crying Light”
06 “Another World”
07 “Daylight And The Sun”
08 “Aeon”
09 “Dust and Water”
10 “Everglade”
18.Fiction Family
So we all new that when Nickel Creek was laid in the grave, that wouldn’t be the last we heard of those great musicians. Thile was first to strike when he released Punch in early 2008 with his new bluegrass collective The Punch Brothers. And now Sean has beaten his sister Sara with his new project with Switchfoot frontman, Jon Foreman. I’ve only heard the one single, but I’m already a fan. I’ve loved Foreman’s voice and songwriting for a while now. But I have been pretty disappointed with the direction that Switchfoot has gone on the past two records. But I have a feeling I will like what a collaboration with Watkins will produce. His best stuff has been just his voice and a guitar, so hopefully two voices and two guitars will be twice as good. Look for the record in stores this Tuesday (1/20) or order it online now.
Merriweather Post Pavilion, the eighth studio album AC has delivered in as many years, is set to see its official US release later this month. Never been a huge fan of these guys, but with all the buzz this album is receiving before its official release on the 20th. Everyone and their mom is talking about it. They have been the most blogged artist on hype machine for a couple of weeks now. Paste gave them 91 rating, which puts them in the category of phenomenal and is quite possibly the highest rating I’ve seen since they switched to this numerical system. I’ve listened to a few of the tracks and personally, I don’t see what all the buzz is about. Fortunately for you, one of our writers does. Check out Brady’s complete review of the album.
I absolutely love this guy. I think that he is one of the greatest songwriters of our time. And he is doing it at such a record pace. He has had at least, one full-length release a year since 2000. And there isn’t a one that I don’t like. And that includes my first listen of Cardinology. If you were a fan of Easy Tiger I think that you will find this one easy to enjoy. But don’t take that to mean that this one is “a lot of the same.” It’s a solid album from an artist who continues to mature and surround himself with great musicians as the years go by.
Our good buddy Jon Foreman, frontman of the Christian rock outfit Switchfoot, has been a busy guy the past several years. Switchfoot released two albums back to back, Nothing Is Sound in ’05 and Oh! Gravity in ’06, both of which I was greatly disappointed in. Then as Jon Foreman he released four seasonal EPs in ’07 and ’08- Fall, Winter, Spring and Summer. And then tomorrow he gives us a sort of best of collection taken from those EPs. And in case you never listened to them and since we regrettably have not mentioned them on here, they are fantastic. His writing is back up to par, comparable to some of the writing he did with Legend of Chin or Learning to Breathe, both of which are must haves for any one who has ever even thought about liking Switchfoot.
Film
Quantum of Solace
Since there wasn’t much worth talking about with movie releases this week I thought I would take an early start at getting you excited about the new Bond movie. Quantum of Solace is coming out this weekend in the UK and then in two weeks here in the U.S. I was a huge fan of Casino Royale, I think that the series definitely is on an upswing. Let’s see if they can pull it off again. This preview definitely makes me believe they will.
Well it’s time to combine my love of lists with my love of music, but that’s about all the loving you’re gonna squeeze out of me today.
