Safe As Milk

I’ve let too many albums pile up here in the Heavy Rotation folder so i am banging all of them out in one post. No matter your musical taste (unless you have none) you will surely find somthing you will like.

“Easier“, like a lot of the songs on Grizzly Bear’s album “Yellow House“, has a nice easy feeling without coming close to being lazy. I’ve heard ‘neo-folk’ used to describe the sound, and I guess that fits, but it’s not Joan Baez-style folk. More than anything, this band reminds me of The Kingsbury Manx (who have not updated their site in a while). You can read a short NPR piece about Grizzly Bear here with a short in-studio set to stream.

“Backstage Girl” is one of a few great songs on the new Dj Shadow album “The Outsider“. The album is just too all-over-the-place for me to really get into it. I like some of the more traditional, almost atmospheric Shadow songs on here, and I can definitely get behind the tracks he did for rappers (with the exception of the silly David Banner song), but I don’t dig on the some of the UNKLE-flavored songs. Uber-fans of ‘Endtroducing’ wil probably hate The Outsider as-is, but I bet they would enjoy an instrumental version. All of the beats and tracks on this album are dope (yeah, I said it), and if they release one I’ll get it. It would be easier to listen to as a whole.

“Crying Chic” is from Pop Levi’s Blue Honey ep. It’s just 5 songs but I am sufficiently stoked to look for his debut full-length when it comes out in January. “Crying Chic” has a bluesy 60’s rock vibe going on. Good guitars, some vocal modulation, and a steady beat. This one is worth checking out.

“Hold Up! isn’t the peppiest or the pop-punkiest song on The Adored’s debut album “A New Language” but it is enough of all of those things that it makes me smile. I get the imprssion that one (or more) of these guys had a cool older brother that hipped them to the Buzzcocks (or maybe The Damned) when they were pre-teens. There are worse musical role models and these guys have made an okay album.

“Galaxies is off of Laura Veirs‘ album, “Year of Meteors“. It’s over a year old and yes, I am super-late to the game here, but this song is one of the best things I’ve heard all year. Seriously, if you’ve read this far and you haven’t downloaded anything yet (or even if you’ve downloaded them all so far) please please please download this song. It’s that good. You have my personal guarantee. Seriously.

Okay, that almost gets us caught up to date on the music posts. I need to do some more listening but I will have a lot more coming soon. If you’ve enjoyed anything I’ve posted about please go out and buy the rest of the album by these bands. Good music deserves that support.