No more paving the present with pain from my past

I will let you go-Daniel Ahearn

Watching pretty little liars and they used this song and I thought I recognised it. Turns out it wasn't the song I thought but it's nice to listen to, bit perfect and soft for my liking but nice all the same. I like the title "I will let you go", it completely contrasts every other love song out there that profess how they will do anything for a certain someone. The harmonies are smooth and natural as well, their voices compliment one another wonderfully.

Nice and chilled for a Monday night on which I know a load of my friends are going out!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg6G1T11efw

You're never quite as strong as you sound

Frank Turner-If I Ever Stray

I know this beach. Northumberland it's got to be! yippeeee I have literally the same shot he has haha I can't write any more right now, I shall tackle my hero that is Mr Turner when I have plentiful time and energy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVx2RuANAyk&feature=related

I think I found you my missing puzzle piece, I'm complete

Cringiest lines I've ever written as a title but it leads me on to...

The Horrible Crowes-Teenage Dream

Thank you to my friend for this one. This man has the sexiest voice on Earth. Maybe not in this particular song but in his Gaslight Anthem work it's incredible. I remember being on the fore-mentioned friends shoulders at Reading 2011 right at the front listening to this man blasting 59 sound out and it was literally one of the best moments of my life! One of those moments you look back on and think about how happy you were and, more to the point, are.

Mr Fallon is adorable apparently he has been married to someone he met at secondary school which is the epitome of romance. I didn't know he was in This Charming Man, which is interesting but he is a very wonderful human being and I cannot wait til they're touring the UK again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTN82awVVjk

and here is Great Expectations for those traditionalists among you, the setting in the video is fab too (I love the book) Mr Fallon also looks so so young and clean shaven in this video, not sure I'm overly keen on it aha I like the rugged look he has. It's strange this song goes so quickly, a few moments and it's over and I press the repeat button. This has never happened before.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2Leo9HSaGQ&ob=av2e

You can get addicted to a certain kind of sadness

Gotye-Somebody that I used to know

Okay, I'm extremely late on picking up on this but meh it's still amazing and I have to thank XFM and my mother for exposing me to this. Tis fab. I'm not sure where they're from but they must be hitting the festival circuit this summer. Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UVNT4wvIGY

This cover is pretty snazzy also

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9NF2edxy-M

Every second is treated as though there is no time

Scott Mathews-Eyes wider than before

Such seriously beautiful lyrics. Stolen from Skins the most awful yet compelling show on TV. He has a beautifully whining voice, it's alluringly gorgeous. The emotions shown through his facial expressions are echoed and amplified by his voice.

This song makes me think of growing up and childhood and loss of childhood. Not only literally but in the world we live in we do "see so much more" than we should. The world is shrinking and we must conform to the idea their is no mystery left in the world. As there is little scientific and physical mystery I turn to music and English to find my mysteries, the mysteries of human emotion. Not psychology but what people actually express, their inner most thoughts and feelings. Those are the mysteries I am now chasing.

The fact this is live makes it even more incredible.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXvPkyJmUhI

Lyrics:

Oh Lord, a distant beam of light

The jab of neon floods my weary eyes

It illuminates my soul reasons why

I'm heading your way with the traffic on my side

Remember how it was before

Just a minute away, I'll be knocking on your front door

Don't underestimate this precious time

Every second is treated as though there is no time

Your eyes are wider than before

So little has changed

But your eyes now see much more

Hush, now sway and fall asleep

Gonna drive you away from the trampling of bustling feet

You can lose your troubled thoughts for tonight at least

You can wake in the morning, feeling that you can breathe

Little darling, you're mine for tonight

Your mellow and tender soul is hard to find

From you I draw no doubts deep inside

I surrender myself to your presence and peace of mind

Your eyes are wider than before

So little has changed but your eyes now see much more

So much more, so, so much more

So much more, so much more

Deathconsciousness

Have a nice life-Bloodhail

You get this song on the second listen. Trust me and do it.

The first is a little bit eerie and disturbing and I can understand people turning off in the first few bars thinking "What the fuck was that noise?" You have to actually listen to the music. That's the beautiful, mesmerising thing about it. You can't let it wash over you like average pop or listen to the lyrics intently as I do with acoustic music. It's a bit Radiohead feeling. Experimental, verging on the awful but balancing on the beautiful. It evokes a number of emotions in me. This is the perfect self indulgent record to be peacefully played on a car journey in the dark to a boyfriends house. It is not music you should listen to with other people. At least not the people I know, they would not understand it. That makes me sound like I'm a massive music snob, which in a way I am. I like to enjoy the best quality music I can find and indulge myself in it. As one may do with chocolate or ice cream. Instead of these dietary disasterous indulgences I find myself drearily wonderful music to listen to. And yes, I listen to it completely on my own.

Even the eerie haunting tone of the lyrics is perfect. It is a relatively simple album full of complexly beautifully disjointed masterpieces. It's simple in that they are having fun conveying their feelings and musical tastes. Yet the complexity in chords, construction and lyrics is what keeps me going back for more and more.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ri5F633xSsY&feature=related

I like the fuzzy radio silence noise behind this track in particular. And the layering is to die for. Just wow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBxQR1lcbSo&feature=related

Okay it's ages since a song has made my hairs stand on end and my skin tingle but this one has. My limbs have become completely relaxed and I feel like I'm in some strange yoga class or something. Literally the most relaxing thing I've ever listened to I think.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS26orQu-js&feature=related

This is definitely one of the best albums I've listened to in a while and I'm upset I've only come across their music now, 2 years after this albums release date.

Tip: Do nothing else whilst listening to these three tracks and do them in order.

Earth stands still

I've been meaning to do this post for a long time.

Lana Del Rey and I blame Coco are very similar. Although I personally think I blame Coco is slightly better...

I can't remember when I downloaded I blame Cocos song self machine...it must have been a year and a half ago as I remember discussing the remix with a friend in the sixth form common room so it can't have been earlier than that. Infact it was as I remember looking up the video and being a little confused by it as I'd seen it on a music channel and those stopped in like the summer of year 11...hmm well anyway I like her voice and her music but when I heard Lana Del Rey it took me a while to put the two together but they have a very similar sound and message I feel.

Lana Del Rey has hit our screens and ears in a big way that I blame Coco never could and I'm not entirely sure why, her voice is strong enough and her lyrics different enough to create a stir in the music world and she was making it bigger than Miss Del Rey 2 years ago. I guess it's all trends but I'm glad these ladies are getting some of the recognition they deserve.

Self Machine-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j6VoW6vv9Y

I am a little bit in love with I blame Coco though, she is a beautiful human being with a gorgeous voice. And her surly look is just wonderful.

Born to die-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bag1gUxuU0g

Though having just relistened to her voice I am falling a lil bit in love, especially with this song. Her message is similar to Angela Carters I think, but much more beautifully put.

The shepherd instead of the lamb

All The Eastern Girls- Chapel Club

84,000 or so views! What is wrong with the world. These guys are the most adorable band ever! They got up on stage at Reading and were humble and thankful and gorgeous with their strange folky, dance music. Bless them. He also does not look like the type of person I imagined to sing in this band, I was a little taken a back when I saw him on stage. He's so skinny! Literally flesh and bone yet how that voice comes out of that nimble, slight frame I don't know! It was a nice surprise. He reminds me a little of the Maccabees lead singer who wears a flat peak whilst singing wonderfully about love and toothpaste kisses. He has an interestingly heavy voice, it's not only deep it's almost staining. Pretty sound lyrics also.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkYjjbgU5mw

I like how everyone clasifies this as "indie" it's not. Indie is not a genre as it means individual and surely most musicians are. They make music that appeals to them and the fact they create it makes it individual. I would say this is folk pop if I had to categorise it. I also love reading the comments on videos, some people do have too much time!

America seems an awful long way to go

3 songs today to make up for my silence

Lorelai-Fleet Foxes

I love Fleet Foxes. They have such a chilled sound to them, like nothing could ever or even should ever go wrong. It's as though even bad things through their eyes would be good, it's all perspective after all. It's strange that the marriage of these strange lyrics that aren't cynical or depressing but are neither uplifting or happy. They are thought provoking, the best kind of lyrics.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQj01RW9hDs

Stay Gone-Tyler Ramsey

This has a nice sound to it, like interesting background music. His voice has a hint of American Country and Western about it, kind of traditionally folky. A little whiny but pleasant to listen to. And the tune has grown on me too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB6z8JFtRf0

Last of the melting snow-The Leisure Society

These guys definitely have the best voices in todays line up. And the same delicate tune to go with it. There are no heavy noises in this song the gentle strum of the guitar is the loudest sound. He has a haunting kind of lingering voice, but it's not a haunting lingering. It's a pleasant one like a good friend or a nice person. It's a romantic image "Last of the melting snow" and this is, I believe, a romantic song. It could even be a classic Christmas song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IElQavcqcUM

This life has been insane but today has been okay

Emiliana Torrini-Today has been okay

I believe I have heard this song somewhere else but I can't remember other than having it's title and artist pinned to my wall for the past 2 years and I've finally posted it. Not my usual type of music at all but she does have a beautifully soft voice with lovely low notes with the sensitive high tune. The emotional sense and the way she says okay suggests it has been just okay: one of those days you survive and you know you're going to have a string of them before it gets any better. I'm feeling this.

Cheer up chuck.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac_87o0UWUg