It's been positively ages since I looked for and bought new music like I used to before when my days weren't belonging to the whims of a little human being - which is also another form of music playing 24-hours a day... But I digress, I'm talking now music for me and here are some especially good new finds that I'll listen to over over until another 3 years go by and I once again realize that I need some new tunes.
1. Porter, Huitzil - Oh my god. This song is amazing. An Aztec Anthem and I've listened to it a bazillion times. Those drums and hard beats and then the voices high and low, I just love love love this song with the same fervor that I once adored other repeated songs like Sweet Disposition. I bought their album that this song is on and the whole thing is fantastico.
2. Jake Bugg, Lightning Bolt - Who is this kid? These British kids coming out with "new" music that sounds like decades-old American yeehaw, I kinda want to scorn them because of the hubris to record something like this, but it's so good.
3. Same with George Ezra - I want to not like him, because he's like 19 years old and sounds like a healthier reincarnated Elvis, but every time I hear one of his songs I can't help looking it up - who is this?? - and I'm like, oh man, it's that kid George Ezra! Gah!
4. Sarah Jaffe, Some People Will Tell You - Such a dreamy little piece of honesty about how most people do things.
5. The Cave Singers, Distant Sures - You might think one sultry August evening, "Man, I wish I could dial up a laid back, honey-stringed acoustic guitar song with a raspy but sure voice accompanying that makes me feel okay with the passing time, wistful for beautiful times past, but hopeful for the time I have left tonight." And then you'll play this song and be like, "Oh my god, this is that song!"
6. Treetop Flyers, Things Will Change - And then after listening to the Cave Singers, you'll be in a throwback 70's mood, feeling a bit groovy, but maybe feeling ready for something more upbeat to combat all that wistfulness and so you'll play this number.7
7. Blacksmith and Dan Mangan, Vessel- The kind of song that takes you somewhere - starts off pleading with drums and then builds and add more instruments and then you're flying on Planet Peter Gabriel.
8. Gente de Zona (feat. Marc Anthony), La Gozadera - And now for something completely different... A Latino dance number because - of course I've downloaded a Latin Pop number (what, Pitbull, who me??) and this is just hip shaking, singing into the wooden spoon sweeeeeeet, mami. (Also, how fun was this video to make?)
