I just made myself laugh when I got a visual in my head of spinning MP3s inside my iPhone. I'm like a 3-year old sometimes.
Anyway, here's some stuff that I've been listening to lately.
A Camp - Colonia
A Nina Persson solo side project which I'm enjoying quite a bit more than her work with The Cardigans. The new album Colonia has been getting a lot of Mattias playtime lately.
Fever Ray - Fever Ray
Another solo side project -this one by Karin Dreijer from The Knife. Solid album in a similar electropop style, distorted vocals, etc.
Trost - Trust Me
If it's possible to hit you over the head in an understated way, multilingual German singer Annika Trost knows how to pull it off. Especially listen to her stunning cover of Bonnie 'Prince' Billy's Black. So good.
The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age Of The Understatement
Released almost a year ago, but I just discovered it. Yet another side project; by Alex Turner of The Arctic Monkeys and a guy from The Rascals. Pretty commercial in style, but a good album.
Larkin Grimm
I've only heard two of her songs, but I can't stop listening to one of them: Ride That Cyclone. An energetic acoustic guitar-riff that could be coming from a Johnny Cash song layered with husky repetitive, trance-like vocals. Love it!
Jolie Holland - The Living and the Dead
Jolie is growing on me more and more. I have one of her previous albums (Escondida) and loved one song on it (Old Fashioned Morphine) but the rest of it quickly faded into oblivion. I really like the new album, though - will need to revisit the older stuff soon...
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
You've gotta love this opening line: "I've been working on a cocktail called Grounds for Divorce. Whoa!" And, any band that writes a song called "The Loneliness of a Tower Crane Operator" has got to be onto something. Low key, solid album.
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