perfect! you need to put more stuff up so i can hear more of this BEAUTIFUL voice!

Smith Westerns have cleaned up nicely. Just over a year ago, the Chicago foursome were of the strictly "lo-fi" persuasion, stirring up hot, filthy garage-rock candy out of Marc Bolan and Beatles signifiers. It was youthful music in feeling and sound-- their noisy full-length debut was recorded while they were still in high school-- but the remarkable hooks buried therein were clear enough to land them on the increasingly stacked Fat Possum roster. And suddenly, they had a studio budget the likes of which they definitely hadn't enjoyed before. Though the leap is audibly huge, Dye It Blonde's many successes aren't wholly the result of its gilded production values and ambition. This band was able to furnish first-class melodies from the beginning. Now they've grown along with their resources.

You can hear the progress right away in "Imagine, Pt. 3", a song originally released as part of a split 7" in April 2010. Sped up here just a touch, it's also been re-outfitted with a far creamier set of synths and guitars. The way the latter seem to clasp hands during the coda is particularly breathtaking, frontman Cullen Omori and guitarist Max Kakacek letting their individual lines mate rather than duel. While the melodic foundation was already sturdy throughout, here, what once sounded ragged in stretches is now plush-upholstered from start to finish. Every single piece of Dye It Blonde is similarly decadent, whether it's the sweet whine of semi-titular closer "Dye the World" or the twilight jangle of "End of the Night".

In an interview not long after the album's completion, Omori noted that this otherwise new set of songs was influenced by 90s Britpop luminaries like Oasis, Teenage Fanclub, and Suede. All are present sonically and spiritually, be it in brash tones, melodic IQ or the sheer scope of these recordings. Where a Smith Westerns hook may have once sounded like another fuzzy member of the Nuggets family/genus, it now unfolds like crane-shot, mainstage festival fare. "Still New" for example floats some phasered guitar interplay before Kakacek rips a hole across the chest of the song with a woozy line so big it essentially serves as a chorus. Like "Weekend", whose central, hair-flipping lick also hugs all its parts together perfectly, the song just sounds so drunk-- drunk on love, drunk on heavy petting, drunk on drink, or maybe just drunk on a some combination of the above. In song, it all depends on the lean of Omori's voice and the whip of his chord changes, the curves of his brother Cameron's bass lines.

That moony/beery-eyed feel bleeds through every corridor of this album and in turn forms a crystalline expression of what moves this band. Their use of the studio in augmenting that never goes overboard, though: this music still retains the innately psychedelic, lamplit, tongue-kissed sense of atmosphere that set it apart. There's perhaps no better instance of all that than "All Die Young", the album's centerpiece. It's a ballad turned hymn whose grand, tumbling scale and "Oh Yoko"-indebted outro celebration are peaks on an album rich in them. In its closing moments, Omori sings what sounds like, "Love is lovely when you are young." They were convincing before, but now they seem like experts.

— David Bevan, January 18, 2011 [Pitchfork | Best New Music | 8.4]

All Die Young

Ikuko Kawai - El Choclo (Kiss Of Fire)

Noisy Sunday - Patrick Watson

Darling I Do

"Crosses" from "Veneer"

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April
6 Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer*
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July
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August
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Crosses

Future Islands - Seasons (Waiting On You)

Done All Wrong by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

Nothing Else Matters Violin Cover

When I uploaded this track, I didn't expect that about 3 millions people will listen to it.
So, I have to explain few things. I'm not the artist or the composer of this piece of music, and unfortunately idk the artist neither.
I uploaded this music when my Grandma passed away, she was my favorite person in Earth, I loved her more than I loved anyone in my life and I don't think that I'll love anyone the same as her. May she rest in peace.

This music is for you my Grandma, I Love you ..

Nostalgia - (Soft Piano & Violin)

Ikuko Kawai - Sunflower

Neon Blur

Carrie & Lowell

Should Have Known Better

Cat Power - Sea Of Love

James Henry Jr. - Take Me Down Easy

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I am a tall tree
I weep like a willow
My scars are all hiding
My branches don't show

I am a tall tree 
With roots like a newborn
Your wind is blowing
So over I go

Now I see storm clouds
Off in the distance
A terrible omen
A beautiful show

So Take me down easy
Take me down easy
Let me land softly
Back in your arms

I can be childish sometimes
And seem optimistically kind
But that's cause I can't go
Back down in that hole

There was no sunlight
Just ask my mother
When I treat myself hard
I crumble and fold

So Take me down easy
Take me down easy
Let me land softly
Back in your arms

So Take me down easy
Take me down easy
Let me land softly
Back in your arms

I can sing sad songs
It's easy to find them
The worst kind of heartbreak
Won't leave you alone

So take me down easy
Take me down easy
Let me land softly
Back in your arms

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Noisy Sunday - Patrick Watson

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