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• [8 Days of Kicksmas 2011] Favorite Album: The Drums “Portamento”
• [8 Days of Kicksmas 2011] Favorite Song: il gato “On Feathers & Arrows (on Burnt Pine)”
• [8 Days of Kicksmas 2011] Favorite Song: Oh Land ‘White Nights’

[8 Days of Kicksmas 2011] Favorite Album: The Drums “Portamento” Posted: 29 Dec 2011 07:32 AM PST We are obviously living in a world that proves the age old fable that everything is cyclical, hence, we are back where we started when it comes to music distribution: singles are the name of the game. This had a bit to do with my choice for album of the year, but I’ve got to say, that singles also drive us (as music fans) to dive into the full album full force. After consuming that crap out of “I Need A Doctor” and “Money” (listen to both below), I dove into the full album and was impressed and white-guy-spasm-dancing fo’ DAYS. Great tunes, coupled with a religious theme and badass cover art, to quote a classic video game, Boomshakalakalaka. MP3: Money by The Drums Click here to view the embedded video. The Drums Official The Drums on Facebook Buy Portamento on LP Buy Portamento on CD

[8 Days of Kicksmas 2011] Favorite Song: il gato “On Feathers & Arrows (on Burnt Pine)” Posted: 28 Dec 2011 06:21 PM PST In another year where artistic-electronic manipulation of sound rules most of the music we know and Love, it was this track, by the San Fran natives “il gato” that continues to blow me away with it’s “Indie-Baroque-Folkness”  (did not come up with that… but I like.) There are so many angles I could take to explain why I like this track: the instrumentation, the ups and downs, THE VIDEO, the fact that it has moved me to tears more on more than one occasion. This piece is beautiful in every sense of the word. It’s tracks like this one, and Ray Charles’ “Georgia“, and Atmosphere’s “God’s Bathroom Floor“, and Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns’ “Danse Macabre“… I listen to these works and truly feel the joy, via the synapses popping off in my head, as if we could view them visually, it would be like another amazing episode of Planet Earth. Listen to the song, watch the video, if you don’t like it, then I could say some things that will probably offend someone, so… Click here to view the embedded video. MP3:On Feathers Arrows (on Burnt Pine) by il gato il gato Tumblr (aka their official) il gato Bandcamp il gato on Facebook

[8 Days of Kicksmas 2011] Favorite Song: Oh Land ‘White Nights’ Posted: 28 Dec 2011 11:33 AM PST There is a tranquil and bright energy that just bursts from every glitter covered bit of Oh Land. It reaches out from her music, her videos and her very presence to calm, uplift, and rejuvenate. For me 2011 was a year of big risks, restlessness, and brave (though at times not well thought out) leaps, and there is no better song to explain that swelling of anxiety, uncertainty, risk and of course hopeful and driven optimism than ‘White Nights’. 2011 may have been a year where to top of the charts were filled with pounding beats and near meaningless lyrics, but for me 2011 was about a down shift, soft beats, graceful vocals and an introspective look at yourself and the world you are creating. These dreams under my pillow In the twilight of these white nights Of these white nights Something is about to be born There’s a restlessness in me Keeps me up until the dawn There is no silence I will keep following the sirens Click here to view the embedded video. Oh Land Official Oh Land Facebook This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

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