Broadcast - Corporeal 

Tom Waits - Train Song

So beautiful

I’m sorry for what I’ve done
and I’m out here on my own
well it was a train that took me away from
here but a train can’t bring me home

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Echo Train - Chad Vangaalen

What makes you think it’s gonna last?
When everything you’ve ever done was to be past

Neil Young - Love in Mind

What am I doing here?

What am I doing here?

Woke up this morning with love in mind

It was raining outside but my love still shined

Kept me warm til my plane touched the sky

Roscoe Holcomb - I am a Man of Constant Sorrow

Beautiful.

It’s all up to me now / Keep the demons down / Don’t let them come around here.

Lambchop - Your Fucking Sunny Day

http://dreamsick.bandcamp.com/album/dream-sick-2

My band just released our first full length to Bandcamp. I’ve spent hundreds of hours on this thing, please give it a listen, and let me know what ya think! Click on the photo or the link to listen and download it for free!

Dream Sick was formed in November of 2010 at the end of fall, into the beginning of winter, and a lot of the material for the album was written during this period. Jess Matsen (Vocals, Guitar) was working graveyard shifts at the haunted Hotel Congress as a deskman, and hardly saw the sun. Listening to Dream Sick you can hear these dark undertones in almost every song, there is longing for sunlight, for better days. 

On the opening track singer Jess Matsen begins with the line “A positive mind can be hard to find / Deep inside everything you can’t define” and the album ends on the line “Oh, the change is so slow / But then it’s there and gone / before you even know” These two lines, at the two peaks of the album, sum up the two major themes in the album. To be lost in apathetic darkness, and having to struggle to find your way out. 

Dream Sick leads you by your hand into this struggling mind space throughout the album, down into the depths of darkness. The beginning of the album contains 3 of the more catchy songs, the reverb drenched anthem Shine on Shine, the longing introspective Caravel, and the upbeat, nostalgic love song Know Your Heart. The album then takes a turn to paranoia with the next string of songs. Control the Weather, Cyclical Games, and Hold It’s Place are all noisy, crunchy, paranoia inflected songs. Waste Time and Lost Margaritas continue this trend while referencing the stripped down beginnings of the band. 

The album then closes with the strongest trio of songs. Standing All Alone breaks the darkness, with bright guitars and punchy drum and bass lines. Long John, another song that sounds like winter, with a touch of pedal steel guitar, is one of the prettiest on the album. Who You Are finishes the album off with arguably the best song. Singers Jess and John trade off parts as the song builds, shifts and contorts to an epic ending. The last words of the album are sang, guitars drums and bass rise and fall like a raging storm and then the song slowly comes to a halt and ends in white noise. There is a definite sense of closure here, as all the themes of the album are tied into one swirly epic finale. 

Recording this album was not easy for the band, having to scrap and redo multiple versions of songs; all of it being done by them while each of them struggled with their own lives outside of music. All of this is showcased here, the struggle of losing a job, a lost relationship, or just feeling lost in life. The album twists and pulls as you pass through it, but on the other side, you feel slightly better, having had that emotional release.

Belle & Sebastian - I’m a Cuckoo

I love how good they do happy/sad.

I’d like to see you
But really I should stay away
And let you settle down
I’ve got no claims to your crown
I was the boss of you 
And I loved you
You know I loved you
It’s all over now

And I was there for you 
When you were lonely
I was there when you were bad
I was there when you were sad
Now it’s my time of need
I’m thinking, do I have to plead to get you by my side?

RIP Bert Jansch you were an inspiration to many

Chad Vangaalen- Sara

You can sooth my mind with the silence 

Oh Sara I hear you callin me

Sara

Wake me up when you’re home

Arthur Russell - A Little Lost 

I’m a little lost
Without you
That could be an understatement
Now I hope I have paid the cost
To let a day go on by and not
Call on you

Intro (ft Zola Jesus) - M83

So much compacted nostalgia. I wish Zola Jesus sang this whole album.

And carry on / carry on! 

…

All of my friends / I’ll keep you warm

Atlas Sound - Te Amo

So incredibly excited for this. 

And we will go to sleep / And we’ll have the same dream

You can come around / when you’re down 

You’re always down