Tori Amos - Under the Pink
Missy Higgins - The Ol' Razzle Dazzle
John Mayer - Born and Raised
Something for Kate
- Beautiful Sharks
- Echolalia
- The Official Fiction
- Desert Lights
- Leave Your Soul to Science
- Shotgun Karaoke EP
Thrice - The Alchemy Index
As can be seen, I went completely nuts for Something for Kate during February.
The reason was the ongoing transformation in my reaction to the new album, Leave Your Soul to Science. In my entry for January I consciously stopped at the end of January in terms of my reaction, because (being rather tardy in my blogging... as I am again now) I was well aware that over the first couple of weeks of February I had completely fallen in love with the album and scarcely listened to anything else... except other Something for Kate albums. And then I just shuffled them all together into a giant celebration-of-SFK playlist.
I simply could get enough of the soaring, intense melodies and Paul Dempsey's glorious voice.
Different songs on Leave Your Soul came forward at different points, as some took longer to appreciate than others. Although, even on an album that's quite strong throughout, tracks 2 through 6 represent a golden patch. Five songs that are as diverse representations of this band as you're likely to get, but on different days in February each one of them became something that would get completely stuck in my head or have me pressing repeat or have me just living and breathing every moment of the music as I listened, feeling transported.
The fact that music can do that is, well, wonderful. Uplifting. Just like this...
As can be seen, I went completely nuts for Something for Kate during February.
The reason was the ongoing transformation in my reaction to the new album, Leave Your Soul to Science. In my entry for January I consciously stopped at the end of January in terms of my reaction, because (being rather tardy in my blogging... as I am again now) I was well aware that over the first couple of weeks of February I had completely fallen in love with the album and scarcely listened to anything else... except other Something for Kate albums. And then I just shuffled them all together into a giant celebration-of-SFK playlist.
I simply could get enough of the soaring, intense melodies and Paul Dempsey's glorious voice.
Different songs on Leave Your Soul came forward at different points, as some took longer to appreciate than others. Although, even on an album that's quite strong throughout, tracks 2 through 6 represent a golden patch. Five songs that are as diverse representations of this band as you're likely to get, but on different days in February each one of them became something that would get completely stuck in my head or have me pressing repeat or have me just living and breathing every moment of the music as I listened, feeling transported.
The fact that music can do that is, well, wonderful. Uplifting. Just like this...
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