Just some good music

followed by my thoughts (mostly)

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Young Fathers - In My View

Lay my belly on a woman Leave a dancer for Delilah Dagger for the damned, the damned, the damned

In my view, nothings ever given away I believe to advance that you must pay In my view, love will never come my way So when I leave, you’ll be dancing on my grave

I wanna be king, until I am...

Click. Right on time, easy come easy go must and will stop. What remains though is a different story.

More on the video from director Jack Whiteley:

I started with the question: how do you make people care about your video? In the age of the internet anything seems to go. Videos can be controversial and shocking or just purely bizarre or beautiful, and they don’t necessarily have to make sense. So, in collaboration with the band, I came up with a set of vignettes that attempts to tick these boxes in order to elicit an emotional response from the viewer.

We then threw in an added meta curveball layer by deconstructing what you’re seeing within the video itself, to the point where we’re essentially presenting a step-by-step guide on how to make a video that people will care about and therefore will want to share online.

I love videos that challenge perceptions, pull the rug from under the viewer, offer twists and subvert things, and so that’s what we’ve reached for here. I hope you care about it. And if you do, don’t forget to share. Because sharing is caring.

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This Is On Me - Ben Abraham ft. Sara Bareilles

Willing and waiting to come back from the edge But the look in her eyes says she's leaving Things I should have been saying that I swallowed instead How a silence can be so deceiving

And so we've begun the crawl trying to break the fall Some kind of wrecking ball we turned out to be This is on me

Now it crumbles and crashes, but maybe there's hope for us yet 'Til we're one with the Earth, a way we can make this thing work again And some phoenix may rise from these ashes but the fire comes first

Doesn’t feel real.

Bonus wows

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The Donkeys - Lower the Heavens

scripta manent

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Toots And The Maytals - Love Gonna Walk Out On Me

I see the morning sun I know everything is alright

Reoccurring nostalgia when at home is accepted as inevitable at this point.

Gotta love the bridge!

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John Hopkins - I Remember

Not sure if it’s something genuine or plain curiosity anymore, but I do remember, and at the end of the day I do regret that it was stretched so thin there’s nothing left to hold on to anymore. Then again probably it’s for the best.

Here’s to branching out without forgetting the roots.

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Radiohead - Present Tense

This dance Is like a weapon Of self defense Against the present The present tense

aoty

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Jim James - Hide In Plain Sight

You don't know, you can't see it ain't right.. Did you think you could hide in plain sight ? Life goes on with or without you.. But I hope you know I still care about you.. I know you think we're all out here on our own.. But you don't have to go this alone.. You don't stop, you don't go, you ain't right.. Did you think you could hide in plain sight ?

The front man of My Morning Jacket really hit the nail on the head in his new solo record. Definitely in the albums of the year for me. Seemed to me there was no well defined aim on his previous one, in this album he really managed to capture a really authentic psychedelic soundscape. In a record full of gems my favorites include: Here in Spirit, We Ain’t Getting Any Younger.

aoty

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Bon Iver - 8 (circle)

Philosophize your figure What I have and haven't held You called and I came, stayed tall through it all Fall and fixture just the same thing Say nothing of my fable, no What on earth is left to come Who's agonized and gnawed through it all I'm underneath your tongue I’m standing in your street now And I carry his guitar And I can’t recall it lightly at all, but I know I’m going in

Too much for me to pick up, no Not sure what forgiveness is We've galvanized the squall of it all I can leave behind the harbour

I will run (All around it) Have to crawl (Still can't stop it) Along the fires One more time just pass me by Imma make it half the night Hall light wishes

Right in the feels...

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Gonjasufi - She’s Gone (Oneohtrix Point Never remix)

Thinking about people who are not there anymore.

Is this still a thing?

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The Districts - Lyla

And I heard you'd been hanging around Those city boys learned to dance so well It breaks my heart, it gives me hell I'll go to the meadow where we used to lay But I still wade into that stream The frozen damn water, it tears at me But it makes me feel like I'm fighting to breathe and it's only then I'm scared of dying It's only when I see you turn to go that I know I need your love to stay

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Mac DeMarco - Chamber of Reflection

Spend some time away Getting ready for the day You’re born again Spend some time alone Understand that soon you’ll run With better men

Alone again Alone again Alone again Alone again Alone

No use looking out It’s within that brings that Lonely feeling Understand that when you leave here You’ll be clear Among the better men

Put a record on, hit the bong and bail the house. Exactly my routine. Last night at the most super-fly place in Amsterdam tonight.

'14's circle almost to an end, alongside with that some more circles too, time for some self reflection...

Definitely among my top ten albums of the year.

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Iron & Wine - Tree By The River

Now I'm asleep in a car I mean the world to a potty-mouth girl A pretty pair of blue-eyed birds

Time isn't kind or unkind You liked to say but I wonder to who What it is you're saying today?

Mary Anne, do you remember The tree by the river when we were seventeen? Dark canyon road, I was coy in the half-moon Happy just to be with you and you were happy for me

You know how sometimes you relate a song with a place, a person, a feeling, a date and time of your life and it just sticks? Well to me this is start of June 2014 middle of the night in the car. Never made it to the whole song that night...

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Paolo Nutini - Better Man (Live)

She makes me smile She thinks the way I think That girl makes me wanna be better

Took her down Bleecker Street Saw she drank the way I drink I kissed the sky to send her blue a letter

That girl makes me wanna be a better man Yeah, and should she see fit Gonna treat her like a real man can

She's fearless, she's free She is a real live wire And that girl, she's got me feeling so much better

Oh you trade all the money in the world Just to see this girl's smile All the while, she'll make you feel so much better

Have you ever been this kind of in love? Perfect depiction of the difference between being with someone and growing alongside them...

Funny detail how he deals with the broken string with a smile around 3:10 of the video.

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Andreya Triana - Everything You Never Had

When we were nothing we had it all In your arms of love you kept me warm It was all I wanted all I wanted Cause you gave me everything that you never had I think you're something that I wanna be with your arms of love around me I'm coming home I'm coming home Cause you gave me everything that you never had

Love makes of great stories :)

I quite like this version of the song, the original with Breach is too upbeat for my taste, much more emotion in this one!

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Nathaniel Ratecliff - Pounds & Pounds

And it's out of breath And it's spinning around, In love with the sound of it's own voice, And it's toughest skin has been stretched so thin, it's invisible to us

And if I forget will your hand be soft and guide me through it? And above all the rest I cant seem to pound my fist in deep enough...

There is no end without you There is no end without you There is no sun to keep us warm in the winter Without you I am... I am... I am... without you

I realised I have forgotten my hebrew :(

Attempt at the lyrics since I could find them nowhere else, they deserve to be on the interwebs. Really powerful performance especially when the second vocal kicks in

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QuESt - One Way (Prod. Mt Eden)

And you just want it all one way One way, your way (hey) Uh, no compromise, no compromise She feels his brother's pain

Though he hides behind his pride When I tell them how to light and low Even light stay ease his mind And every time she think she's close, all she does is waste her time Little man just slow your role, ambitions way too far You don't wanna be the one left hanging, trynna reach up to the stars She said, no sir you don't even understand my grind Your hate don't cost a thing, pay me no mind That clothes line gon' open up to a clothesline Words fallen on death is Handkerchief, but she left tears Never understood that arrogance Came from a place his mental dwells Been through hell, took it the wrong way, defensive tales She worries every moment, doesn't wanna see him lose his mind She knows he's looking for something that he will never find

No more looking back in anger I said, remember? Only positive vibes. Damn riiight!

Love the story in the lyrics! Fuck I love digging through my mooziks with a smoke... Easy Thursday night style. Back to the gym tomorrow. I'll write it here so I do it!!

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Dub fx - Love Me Or Not

You could love me or not But either way I've got to Wake up to face another day tomorrow morning You could love me or not But either way I've got the sunrise looking in my eyes And i know i could love you or not But either way you've got to Wake up to face another day tomorrow morning

I'm not getting used to my new solitude I've still got a photo in my wallet of you I've got to stop my self From picking up the phone and just calling you I've got to keep my emotions together and forever So don't be afraid I can't erase memories with the actions i seize And I can not erase your smiles and your eyes With your hair in the breeze And the only way for me to move on Is to write it in a song that life goes on And I'm kicked off this earth With no one to hold its getting cold and my chest hurts You could love me or not… What will the world bring? You've got to be strong Your story goes on and on Even though our page is gone Cos theirs a world out there And even though it aint fair You've got to not be scared cos i swear I'll always be true to you Forgetting your smiles and eyes i could never do Your love is skin deep with me You could never be replaced Even though you know my heart is free Don't be afraid…

Some relationships are supposed to end like this before they turn to shit. Shame it's not always like this...

Couldn't leaving any of the lyrics out, such a good song... Seeing live soon!