Listen up February...

Here's what I'm listening to these days, just in case you were wondering...



Mostly I'm listening to Iron & Wine's Our Endless Numbered Days, that's pretty much all I'm listening to, over and over and (why not) over again.

Especially: [1] Sodom, South Georgia [2] On Your Wings [3] Passing Afternoon.

Lyrically:

"All dead white boys say, 'God is good'
White tongues hang out, 'God is good'" - Sodom, South Georgia

"God, every road takes us farther from home...
God, give us love in the time that we have" - On Your Wings

Sigur Ros - Taak...
Especially: Hoppípolla

Lyrically:

"OG ÉG FÆ BLÓÐNASIR (Hoppípolla)
En ég stend alltaf upp (Hoppípolla)" - Hoppípolla

Alex Dupree & The Trapdoor Band - Self Titled
Especially: Ramona

Lyrically:

"Oh who holds the map to the treasures of coal
Oh who scraped up against the granite edge of his soul
Who savors the weeds after trampling the rose
Who drives through the night with blood on his clothes
Who begs for pennies on streets paved with gold

Bear on, Bear on are you liberty's sons
There's no pride in coming home" -Liberty's Sons

Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production of Eggs
Especially: Measuring Cups

Lyrically:

"and we were tired of being mild
oh so tired of being mild
we were so tired" - Tables and Chairs

Alexandre Desplat - Syriana Soundtrack
Especially: Driving in Geneva


Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
Especially: Shine a Light

Lyrically:

"I was a hero
Early in the Morning
I ain't no hero
In the night"

NPR - Story Corps
Not an album per say, but something I've been listening to a lot of. NPR is recording an auditory history of America, made up of the uncommon stories of common Americans.
Listen:

SAMPLER

Retired Memphis sanitation worker Taylor Rogers and his wife Bessie remember Martin Luther King Jr.'s final speech.

William Jacobs tells his grandson Seth about an unexpected visit from his fiancée's mother.

SOME OTHER THINGS I'M TAKING IN:




Especially: David Gray's Ain't No Love from the album Life in Slow Motion.

Lyrically:

"On winter trees the fruit of rain
Is hanging trembling in the branches
Like a thousand diamond buds
Waiting there in every pause
That old familiar fear that claws you
Tells you nothing ain’t no good
Pulling back you see it all
Down here so laughable and small
Hardly a quiver in the dirt" - David Gray, Ain't No Love

All that to say that I'm really only listening to Iron and Wine. Over and over and over.