Don’t Get Sentimental

I can’t have Marcelo making me look bad, so I too am posting this weekend.  We oughta find a Swedish song that uses a sample so we can streamline these two features, and I can stay in bed all day Sunday.

Alas, I am awake and this weeks Swede is Lykke Li.  She’s a 22 year old solo artist with one album, Youth Novels, which came out earlier this year.  Her music relies heavily on her voice, with minimalist backing percussion and the occasional horn/synth vamping.  Her voice moves over the beat to make the perfect soundtrack for a lazy Sunday, where it’s playing in the background and every now and then a song will jump out and grab your attention.

Anyway, she’s awesome, listen to some music:

Lykke Li - Dance Dance Dance

Lykke Li - Little Bit

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On an unrelated note: I added google AdSense to the site way back when as kind of a pipe dream.  In the 3 and a half months it’s been active, this site has generated an impressive 4 (four) cents profit.  Keeping the dream alive!  Now, this is not surprising in and of itself; we have, after all, a very small niche market here.

But as I was reading Marcelo’s latest Saturday Morning Sample, I noticed that two of the three ads were targeted at suffers of ovarian cancer.  Now, I can see the wisdom in not getting overly sentimental about your ovarian cancer, but for the life of me I cannot fathom what it is about Ghostface that inspired this.

/confusion.

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After a brief hiatus, I return with another post on, wait for it, wait for it…indie folk!  Informal surveying has revealed that our immense readership (read: a half dozen friends) respond well to both Marcelo’s vast knowledge of obscure hip hop and Nick’s two (2) un-music-related but funny posts.  I’m not sure anyone responds favorably to, or even reads my posts about sad, guitar plucking indie artists, but I’m writing what I know, so pull up a chair, put on your headphones, and put away the hip hop for 5 minutes.

Frightened Rabbit is a Scottish group who released their second LP, The Midnight Organ Flight, in April.  It’s one of those sleeper albums that crept up on me, where I was half paying attention one night and thought, “Who the hell is this group with the strange voice?”  Because that is the most immediately distinctive attribute: lead singer Scott Hutchison’s voice, which sounded more American-country than Scottish to me at first listen.

Their acoustic songs evoke something of an old-timey, Irish jig atmosphere (think the below deck revelry of the poor folks in Titanic.  Minus Leo).  There are several slow burners, but most of the songs build to thumping, dance-worthy beats and you can’t help but sing along, emulating the unique spin Hutchison puts on these familiar words.  Kick back by the fire and enjoy.

Frightened Rabbit - Old Old Fashioned

Frightened Rabbit - The Modern Leper

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