The Staves - "In The Long Run" and "The Motherlode" [folk]

The Staves are a three-girl folk band from the UK. I first heard of them from that album cover from MOJO Magazine of Fleetwood Mac's Rumours. They did a cover of "Songbird". I've had their album sitting around collecting data dust for a while but have finally gotten around to giving it a good listen. Boy, that sure was a good idea (I've always been a sucker for girls and harmonies :3).

Well, anyway, here is a well done live version of two songs from their 2012 album Dead & Born & Grown: "In The Long Run" and "The Motherlode".

Echo Lake - Swimmers [dream pop]

I recently started studying again and, with it, it seems I've also began listening to music more intently.

Well anyway, I've had this album for Echo Lake for a while and it had been sitting in my playlist unplayed for a good while (though I do remember listening to it before and quite liking it actually). Well, finally gave it another listen and it definitely is much more memorable than the other stuff I have that's along this musical stream.

Echo Lake is a duo consisting of Thom Hill and Linda Jarvis hailing from the UK. Last.fm has "shoegaze" and "dream pop" tags for them, whatever that means; I think I'm starting to become desensitized to this genre business. This is "Swimmers" from their 2012 album Wild Peace.