Laura Veirs — Galaxies.

I lay down on the couch and shut my eyes to this. And then for some reason my brain though I was high up in a skyscraper or a balcony or a really really tall chair because I got that height dizziness and almost fell out of the couch. Exciting!

The Soft Boys — I Wanna Destroy You

It’s a Robyn Hitchcock night.

John K. Samson — When I Write My Master’s Thesis.

On month exactly until John K Samson’s solo album comes out.

Since I though about calling this illustration “Sally Timms in Space,” I thought it’d be best to post it with a Sally tune as well (“Best Intentions”). That’s how I roll.

It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Fish-Men.

And with this jolly tune I bid you goodnight and sweet dreams with the smell of salmon.

Since not everyone understands Swedish — this is a design flaw of unmeasurable magnitudes — here’s another new Hardcore Troubadours song. This time an original called Sin City Serenade and in English. 

The friends to whom I drew that album cover a few weeks ago have now been in and recorded things. This is an Ebba Grön cover which is never a bad thing.

Kate Bush - “Misty” (by antirecords)

Sadly the video is a short radio edit — which in this case means it’s about ten  minutes shorter than on the album.

Theoretical Girl doing a cover on The Fine Arts Showcase’s Heaven To Me. In a way it might have been a mistake to listen to this, in other ways it wasn’t.

Laura Veirs — Where Gravity Is Dead

The problem with only eight gig of space in the mp3 player is that there’s this rotation. Everything I want can’t fit. This is also a strength as I’m forced to shuffle around and remove things in order to add new albums. There’s no room for anything I don’t want to listen to right now. Being a pre-cog is hard work though.

So due to the trip I’ve filled it with things that reminds me of autumn and winter. Laura Veirs is winter for me. Long scarves and the snow going crunch underneath the boots. Wind scratching the cheeks, the nose slightly numb. I don’t think there’s snow where I’m going but still… Winter’s still here.

Jed Whedon and the Willing — Tricks On Me.

Sometimes I think I hate the Whedon family. Mostly I like them, even when they’re awkward and do things that are a bit ill-thought out (ehrm, far too much of Dollhouse)  but… You know. There’s too much talent in that family, leave some for the rest of us will ya?

merlin:

The Mountain Goats – “This Year” (2005)

There will be feasting
And dancing
In Jerusalem next year.

I am going to make it
Through this year
If it kills me.

[Vis-à-vis]

I might have missed this video. Very silly of me if that’s the case. The song I’ve heard of course, lots and lots of times.

Sandy Denny & Thea Gilmore — Glistening Bay.

While Sandy Denny never recorded these, the words are her’s and this collaboration of ten songs is damn pretty as well as very affecting. The music written by Thea Gilmore feels true to them both. There are musical hues from both Fairport Convention and Sandy’s solo works but at the same time the melodies unmistakably are those of Thea’s. You can hear it on the guitars — sometimes more, sometimes less. But it’s there.