Category: Music
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Mylo Xyloto: The Rock Opera
Over-analysis alert: If there’s one thing I love, it’s thinking way too much about a piece of artwork. I’ve had some time and multiple listenings to take in Coldplay’s new album, Mylo Xyloto, and I think I’ve pieced together a storyline. Take what you want from below … I offer it mostly as a way…
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Fall Music
This fall, my soundtrack is all about spare, raw, and rocky. That’s why two songs into Feist’s Metals, I know I’m in a good place. I also finally cracked open The Civil Wars’ Barton Hollow (finally), and I already told you about Needtobreathe’s The Reckoning. Alexi Murdoch (Away We Go soundtrack), Fleet Foxes (Helplessness Blues),…
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The Reckoning, by Needtobreathe
New year, new amazing Needtobreathe album. The Reckoning, like NTB’s last album, The Outsiders, didn’t impress me on first listening … but dig deep. There’s some GREAT stuff in here. You might have already heard Slumber on the radio, as I have. Other standout tracks are Drive All Night, Wanted Man, and Devil’s Been Talking.…
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Sounds of Fall, 2011
Helplessness Blues, by Fleet Foxes Bon Iver, by Bon Iver Away We Go, by Alexi Murdoch 10,000 Reasons, by Matt Redman Young Love, by Mat Kearney …but mostly the first three.
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I have no idea…
…why the theme from Back to the Future is playing in my head this morning. But really, when it comes to Alan Silvestri, do you even need a reason?