Levamentum menti, Latin for "comfort for the mind", that's what music is for me. This blog will be an ongoing record of interesting music that I come across. Check it out, maybe something will suit your tastes!
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Nice ... good energy, good sound, and nice vocals ... woohoo. Less woohoo is the fact that I just f'g missed their local f'g concert by a few f'g days. WHY DOES THIS PERIODICALLY HAPPEN?
Ohh and pretty sweet live too.
"Edge of Town" by Middle Kids from their 2017 Middle Kids EP release]
This is an absolutely beautiful song. Round warm sounds lulling me towards a ... beautiful place. Somewhere away from the day's anxieties that pursue us so doggedly, relentlessly.
"Generation Why" by Weyes Blood from her 2016 album Front Row Seat To Earth
"Seasons" was a fucking right song (and that performance on Letterman totally sold me on it, as if there had been any doubt in my mind in the first place). Future Islands released this music video in the beginning of March. Can't wait for the album, to be released in April.
"Ran" by Future Islands from their upcoming 2017 album The Far Field
Been listening to Japanese Breakfast a lot lately. There are many draws for me for their song "In Heaven". The Psychopomp album comes from the time shortly after frontwoman Michelle Zauner had gone through the loss of her mother. The readily apparent earnestness in her lyrics, to me, is an invitation to connect with her. For better and worse, I've yet to be privy to the full spectrum of human experience. Not that the experiences that "In Heaven" surround are pleasant to any degree, songs like these grant me, the listener, a temporary vicarious experience ... some part of me wants to believe that it somehow helps me understand humanity and the associated experience a bit better. In a much smaller part, the slight shoegaze influence in some of the instrumentals is well received (they're opening for SLOWDIVE?!?! ... of course that local show has already been sold out ... u_u).
I've opted to link a live version because I think they're just so cool as a band live. Also, despite the name, Michelle Zauner is Korean.
"In Heaven" by Japanese Breakfast from their 2016 album Psychopomp
It was nice to see MUNA pop up again, this time at the beginning of 2017, with their first LP About U. It was also nice seeing them perform live, on Kimmel of all places. Solid energetic performance (not as energetic as Future Islands was on Letterman though lol).
And, oh man, the added message in the bridge about "him not being my leader even though he's my president" definitely took a whopping helping of courage. And frontwoman Katie Gavin just drops it so effortlessly for the entire world to see. That's conviction. The band's noted in one interview re: their music: "We try to make music that reflects both the reality of the world we live in and some sense of optimism.". That's something I can get behind.
"I Know A Place" (performed on Jimmy Kimmel) by MUNA from their 2017 album About U
