Tag: alternative music
Daily Dose: The Head and the Heart, “Library Magic”
Nobody does country harmonies better than The Head and the Heart. And, you know, I like libraries and stuff. Perfect combo for a summer Saturday.
Daily Dose: David Ramirez, “Watching from a Distance”
This one might be from the closing credits of that 1980s film you can’t remember the name of but remember watching all the time on cable. And it’s gloriously self-aware.
So good.
Daily Dose: Natalie Prass, “Hot for the Mountain”
Daily Dose: Melody’s Echo Chamber, “Cross My Heart”
I am totally obsessed with this album. It feels so fresh, mixing 1960s French psychedelia with Britpop nuances, a dose of funky jazz flute, and some subtle hip hop riffs in the middle for good measure.
If I close my eyes, I can almost imagine myself floating through Paris as an extra in an unmade Serge Gainsbourg film.
Daily Dose: Bill Baird, “Baptize Your Wasted Face in Wine”
Real talk.
Daily Dose: ings, “Dog Physics”
I will keep your secrets safe this Sunday.
Daily Dose: Hospitality
Just discovered Brooklyn-based, avant indie band Hospitality, and it was love at first listen. I just can’t get enough, so this is a two-for-the-price-of-one Daily Dose. You know, to compensate for the lack of dosage lately.
Daily Dose: Daniel, Fred, and Julie, “The Gambler and His Bride”
Daily Dose: Cake, “Short Skirt/Long Jacket”
Musicians sometimes takes themselves too seriously, making their music remote. Not Cake, never Cake. This band was omnipresent on KROQ, a Southern California radio station, in the 1990s and early 2000s, and, as such, was in the background of every stolen summer moment at the beach during that period. While I never caught the Cake obsession like so many of my peers, I know the lyrics to most of their songs despite never having purchased an album. Their music is unquestionably a Nostos Algos trigger for me, and since our whiskey brains were listening to their early catalog at an in-home hangout session last night…well…I had to include a sliver of their contribution to my youth in this Daily Dose. As the saying goes, “Let them eat Cake!”
