Red by Taylor Swift is an eclectic pop album that happens to serve as Taylor Swift's ascension to the top of pop. The album is a collection of singles so there's not to be written about it as an album, unless I'm interested in retelling stories written about Taylor Swift's move away from country or to the forefront of pop, which I'm not.
Instead, I'd rather offer up my opinion on which songs I think are the best on Red. Of course, the post title is me making fun of any blogger or musical journali...
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Fall has arrived and so has a contender for my album of the year. I thought The Lumineer's self-titled was going to cruise home unchallenged, but that's not the case.
Lonesome Dreams by Lord Huron has arrived and it left quite the impression on first listen and again on subsequent listens. It captures a lot of what I loved in my favorite album of last year, Youth Lagoon's The Year of Hibernation. There's a certain mystic quality about both of them. While the latter is easily called dreampop, the ...
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A few years ago, a neighbor and friend of mine was blasting “What You Know” from his apartment, and I stopped over to ask him which band had written the song. He showed me a setlist with the Two Door Cinema Club logo at the top, and put a few songs on his speaker system. I proceeded to get my hands on Tourist History, and I’ve been listening on repeat, dancing awkwardly, and recommending it to everyone I know for a little over two years.
Beacon is the follow up to Tourist History
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I wanted this post to somehow tie together my first trip to Seattle and my obsessive listening to Passion Pit's Gossamer during that trip. I couldn't really make it work it in a way that properly complimented one another.
I'll have to spend more time in Seattle. I want to check out Belltown more, I want to actually go to the Space Needle instead of just snapping a picture of it, and it was nice to have good seafood back in my life. There and now, the last part kicked up my cravings for crabcakes even more...
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I tend to listen to music that reflects my feelings at the time. I think I've touched on this previously at some point, but to be honest, a lot of the posts run together after a while, kind of like the faces of acquaintances that pass through your life.
The album Carson City by The Great American Desert is for those distant, downtrodden times. It's stripped down, simply recorded in a living room. I've had the record for over a month and it dovetailed with my feelings for most of that time, basically u...
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Six days before my 24th birthday, my favorite Chicago-based math-rock-indie-pop quartet released their latest album. If you’re new to the musical readings of 1146 miles, then the band I’m referring to is Maps & Atlases. Their album, Beware and Be Grateful, has been on sporadic repeats and loops on my iPod/computer/iPad/phone/anything-that-plays-music. Three weeks have passed of me letting this album simmer into my brain, in hopes that I’ll somehow find the words to articulate how great it is. T...
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I've taken a few days to listen and digest The Lumineer's self-titled debut LP. It is an album I was looking forward to with great anticipation. I was afraid that the album might be overproduced but my fears were unfounded. I've decide to review it slight differently than a traditional album review. I've picked out a few lyrics from The Lumineers and will let them serve as starting points for vignettes, some more related to the music and some less.
Classy girls, don't kiss in bars, you fool
Classy G...
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