I'm stuck on a train, barred by wifi gods from uploading MP3s. And so I will do as every other mp3blog seems to do - share two streaming songs, with the ludicrous hope that after one or two plays, you'll buy them for real.
Yes, it may seem ludicrous; but still - do!
Young Galaxy - "Crying My Heart Out (edit)".
One of Young Galaxy's best-ever singles, which is saying something. While the radio edit might fit more neatly on a mix-tape, the original mix has room to sprawl. (To sprawl like glittering midnight.) Like Robyn's singles, like the Knife's pop peaks, "Crying My Heart Out" balances bitter and sweet, crispness and swoon, mechanical disco with watercolour blush. This is a band that has always known how to write a hook - here it has such a simple, beautiful architecture. Scattering beats, warm synths, a nod to Joy Division, Catherine McCandless's climbing voice. You put it on repeat you put it on repeat. It's not often that regrets can turn so precious.
Cass McCombs - "There Can Be Only One".
Cass, singing lazier than I've ever heard him, singing a song about love. He's made something I would wrap around my finger like a ring, that I'd wear up into the street or down into the forest, that I'd slip into one of this traincar's empty seat-pockets, for a stranger to find, one day, lucky.
Posted by Sean at September 9, 2013 3:54 PM