Stealing Sheep 'Pas Réel' (Not Real French Version)

Which class do you share with your crush? Mine's chemistry. He might be the teacher

Pretty In Pink (boardwalk first date, strawberry ice cream)

Album release April 2018

Alone in the world, we find ourselves. Inside ourselves, we find something to share with the world. 
The Essential John Moods, a solo album in all senses of the word, is what Jonathan Jarzyna of Fenster found in himself during a summer spent hiking along the Iberian coast, and he now wants to share it with you. A mini-guitar on his back and a copy of GarageBand on his phone allowed Jarzyna to record songs each evening as he arrived in a new town after a long day traveling by foot. (He did, admittedly, add live drum tracks and some additional instrumentation back in Berlin.) The album preserves this peripatetic feeling, each song relating to the next as one city or village relates to its neighbor, its unique situation contrasting with the shared architectural vernacular. Blipping instrumental interludes (“Trainride,” “Pontevedra,” “Coastal Way”) even capture the disordered, delirious feeling of transit hubs and the sleep-bleared mystery of waking on an unfamiliar road.
“I just came alive completely” are the first words Jarzyna murmurs on “New Spring,” invoking the spirit of the album. He speaks not of the liveliness of manic activity, but the heightened, tender sensitivity of presence. It’s a fullness of living captured by the transition from the lush, jangling groove of “The Weight” to the spacious contemplation of “Pawns.” The dreamy echo of the 60s’ and 70s’ soft rock and folk troubadours suffuses the album, and the organ-soaked “Where In The World” even has a psychedelic tinge. But the overall effect is quite contemporary, from the back-of-the-nightbus lounge funk of “Take It Home” (featuring an amazing turn from arch-crooner Sean Nicholas Savage) to the mournful cupboard jazz of “Almost Gone.” “Dark Wall”  sounds like a honkytonk ramble alongside a robot tentatively learning to play lap steel. “Leap of Love,” an early album highlight, passes over the listener in shimmering waves, a love song which remains a mystery even to its creator. 
In the meditation tape coda “Relax Your Foot,” Jarzyna selects the perfect sample to encapsulate The Essential John Moods’ hopeful receptivity: the late Professor Carl Sagan reminding us that “despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness.”

The Essential John Moods

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John Moods - Take It Home (feat. Sean Nicholas Savage)

Ryley Walker - "Telluride Speed" from 'Deafman Glance' out May 18, 2018 on Dead Oceans

Download / stream: http://ryleywalker.ffm.to/deafmanglance

Ryley Walker - Telluride Speed

sir
why do you have short back and sides
why are you fucking a horrible cheerleader from san francisco

hamlet

"Learner" is the first single from HXXS' forthcoming album, 'Year Of The Witch', out October 18th, 2019.

Year Of The Witch

HXXS // Learner

Pendant un mois la vie m’a paru belle
Surprise d’un soir à Paris même 
faut croire que le morceau ne t’as pas plu
Est-ce que c’est pour le côté sensuel ?

La prochaine fois je ferai un effort
Ce joint qu’on a fumé était trop fort 

Depuis un mois des journées similaires
Surprise d’un soir en quartier populaire
Sur le trottoir je finis ivre mort
Si j’avais su que j’avais tord

J’imaginais une fin plus romantique
Une marche au pas de manière bucolique
Si j’avais su que j’avais tord 
Qu’le slow était une métaphore
 
À peine parti je cours m’acheter une bière
Juste au rond point de la rue traversière
J’ai cru que tout ça était authentique 
J’ère de manière fantomatique  

Peut-être qu’il y a encore des choses à dire
Peut-être qu’il y a une histoire à bâtir
Mais ce soir je me prends la tête
Je m’en vais seul pour faire la fête

Encore merdé

Wanna buy a cassette?
leonileoni.bandcamp.com

When the fog reaches my skin
Is it me? Am I shaking

When you come I wanna break things
Winter comes, am I shaking

Oh it’s frighting, all comes down
Oh I’m afraid of when you’re gone

I only doubt about time
Only sh-shake when I shake it off

For the great, for the greater
hello heart, and see you later

Oh it’s frighting, all comes down
Oh I’m afraid of when you’re gone

I only doubt about time
Only sh-shake when I shake it off

Supported by Kultur Stadt Bern

Langsam müed

QUARANTINE SERIES 05 // ISLAND (Naima Bock & Dan Carey) - Maybe The Light

Newest from the prolific Omaha musician finds him returning to the home-recorded solo magic of his earlier solo albums. This is music for late-night drives or late-night hangs, rusted and dusted with stoney brilliance. Out via Trouble In Mind Records on Nov 13th, 2020 
(www.troubleinmindrecs.com)

John Moods - Take It Home (feat. Sean Nicholas Savage)

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