Dec 16

I’m admittedly not that big a Kanye West fan.  I like the beats but his flow is really not that good most of the time.  But I downloaded the new album, 808s & Heartbreak, and I really like it.  It’s not really a typical rap record, or at least a typical Kanye record, in that it’s got a lot of singing (albeit of the autotune variety) and the sound is fairly experimental.  It makes me think of Kanye in his basement, just fooling around with GarageBand, seeing what sounds cool.

Anyway, the song “Coldest Winter” is just under 3 minutes of Kanye + autotune, and the lyrics are fairly simple, but the combination still packs a fair punch.

“Good bye my friend will I ever love again, Memories made in the coldest winter;” it’s not James Joyce, but there’s a raw earnestness to the way he sings it that makes it that much more powerful.  Now it’s gonna get stuck in your head:



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Jul 20

tornado-cover-500-300x276 Songs I Cant Stop Listening To

Part of the reason I wanted to start this site is to streamline the way I go about telling my friends about cool music.  Instead of say, pestering them in person and online everytime I think of a great song, it would be easier to just put them all in one place.  Hence this site, and the first song/album/artist I want to point out is “No One Said It Would Be Easy,” by Cloud Cult.

I’ve only just recently discovered them, and I’m slowly making my way through their back catalogue.  It’s some really inventive ensemble music that swings effortlessly between the absurd and the profound.  I implore anyone to listen to this song just once.

Cloud Cult - No One Said It Would Be Easy

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