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Jan 20 / 3:03pm

Little Lion Man - Mumford & Sons

Not sure how I only recently heard about Mumford & Sons - perhaps I was too busy listening to Phoenix and The National on repeat for the past 4 months? - but once discovered, they're quickly becoming my first 2010 musical obsession. This song - Little Lion Man - is one of my favorites on their album "Sigh No More", maybe, quite possibly, very likely because of these lyrics. I love when people take responsibility for their stupidity.

But it was not your fault but mine

And it was your heart on the line

I really fucked it up this time,

Didn't I, my dear?

Little Lion Man by Mumford And Sons

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Jan 12 / 3:05pm

If You Let Me Be Your Anchor - Dawes

Am late to the game, but am currently obsessed with this entire album ("North Hills" by Dawes.) It's pretty amazing. Though they're from California, they ring very North Carolina to me. It's like the musical equivalent of my past and present coming together.

I want love to stretch its fingers wide

And touch on all our wandering parts.

Come sit by my Californian side
With your Carolina heart.

If You Let Me Be Your Anchor by Dawes

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Jan 12 / 9:37am

Heartbeats - The Knife

Heartbeats by The Knife

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In my "Best of 2009" mix, I included Jose Gonzalez's cover of "Heartbeats" (which is nothing less than stellar) but lately, kind of digging the original by The Knife even more.

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Dec 27 / 10:25am

My Favorite Year - Destroyer

My Favorite Year by Destroyer

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"It was a good year, It was a very good year. And now it's gone. They say the whole point of everything's the moving on."

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Dec 20 / 11:00am

Skinny Love - Bon Iver

Skinny Love by Bon Iver

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Sums up what I'm feeling today. Thanks, Justin Vernon, for always having the right words when I need them most.

Come on skinny love just last the year
Pour a little salt we were never here
My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my
Staring at the sink of blood and crushed veneer

I tell my love to wreck it all
Cut out all the ropes and let me fall
My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my
Right in the moment this order's tall

And I told you to be patient
And I told you to be fine
And I told you to be balanced
And I told you to be kind
And in the morning I'll be with you
But it will be a different kind
And I'll be holding all the tickets
And you'll be owning all the fines

Come on skinny love, what happened here?
Suckle on the hope in light brassieres
My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my
Sullen load is full, so slow on the split

And I told you to be patient
And I told you to be fine
And I told you to be balanced
And I told you to be kind
And now all your love is wasted
And then who the hell was I?
And I'm breaking at the britches
And at the end of all your lines

Who will love you?
Who will fight?
Who will fall far behind?

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Dec 15 / 2:30pm

Lately - The Helio Sequence

Lately, I don't think of you at all.

This one would be high on my list of "Best Breakup Songs", if I ever were to create that list, that is. (Too depressing, who wants to remember THOSE DAYS?) But if one of you more-morose folks out there do, I highly recommend this tongue-in-cheek song by The Helio Sequence.

Lately, I don't think of you at all
Or wonder what you're up to, or how you're getting on
I never think of calling you, or how things could have been
Or wonder where you sleep at night, or whose arms you wake in
I'm living alone, living alone
I don't need you anymore
Living alone, living alone
I don't need you anymore
Lately
I don't get lost in daydreams
I never lay awake at night staring in my bed
And I don't think about your face or anything you've said
And I don't think twice when someone says your name
Or twist my mind in circles wondering which of us to blame
I'm living alone, living alone
I don't need you, anymore
Living alone, living alone
I don't need you anymore
I never walk alone and think of all the empty words
Or wonder when the day will break, or when the tides will turn
And I don't break down when someone says your name
Or twist my mind in circles wondering which of us to blame
I'm living alone, living alone
I don't need you anymore
Living alone living alone
I don't need you anymore

Lately I don't think of you at all
Lately
Oh, lately

Lately by The Helio Sequence

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Dec 4 / 9:21am

Left and Leaving - The Weakerthans

I find myself waking up in the mornings with a song already playing in my head...this was today's. Seems fitting as I head out for yet another trip. Sometimes it's hard to tell who's left and who's leaving.

My city's still breathing (but barely it's true)
through buildings gone missing like teeth.
The sidewalks are watching me think about you,
sparkled with broken glass.
I'm back with scars to show.
Back with the streets I know.
Will never take me anywhere but here.
The stain in the carpet, this drink in my hand,
the strangers whose faces I know.
We meet here for our dress-rehearsal to say "I wanted it this way"
wait for the year to drown.
Spring forward, fall back down.
I'm trying not to wonder where you are.
All this time lingers, undefined.
Someone choose who's left and who's leaving.
Memory will rust and erode into lists of all that you gave me:
a blanket, some matches, this pain in my chest,
the best parts of Lonely, duct-tape and soldered wires,
new words for old desires,
and every birthday card I threw away.
I wait in 4/4 time.
Count yellow highway lines that you're relying on to lead you home.

Left And Leaving by The Weakerthans

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Nov 29 / 4:38pm

Broadripple is Burning - Margot & The Nuclear So and So's

Broadripple Is Burning by Margot And The Nuclear So & So's

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I adore this song.

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Nov 23 / 1:15pm

Blood - The Middle East

Blood by The Middle East

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Oh Sirius-XMU, you never let me down.

Neither do you, Australians, neither do you.

The Middle East - the Ozzies in question - just released their latest EP. Five songs, and of them, this one (Blood) is my favorite. Such a great song...reminds me a bit of The Antlers' new LP, with a little less of the "I'm contemplating slitting my wrists" morbidity.

Enjoy. I am.

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Nov 10 / 2:25pm