will blog for music

This is my space for writing, noting, nerding etc. on musical discoveries and general thoughts on everything music. All words by Camilla, music librarian by profession.

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Each song on The Antlers' fifth album takes a thoughtful journey, mixing subtlety, grandiosity and beauty.

Stream Familiars from NPR Music’s First Listen. 

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Pure. Unadulterated. LOVE!!!

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Calexico meets Kenny Loggins. They own this song. 

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Brand new Delphic EP surfaced from out of nowhere. It's got them back to what they do best: seemingly simple dance music but with a complex twist once you stop dancing and start listening. Perfect soundtrack for the spring!

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I return to the life of the (online) living with a post praising new singer/songwriter Douglas Dare. Debut album is out in May on Erased Tapes. Looking forward!

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The amazing Hauschka is back - and on everyone's favourite indie label, City Slang. First single off the new album, due out in the spring. Plus a spring tour is underway, bringing him all over Europe. Including Copenhagen this time: April 9th at Jazzhouse. Not to be missed!

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looze ur hrt n’d it’s fouwnd 

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The beauty!!!

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A mixtape isn’t a toaster or a tennis racquet or any other inanimate gift you might receive. It’s weighted by a unique and vast world of emotions, thoughts and feelings, memories or shared memories, hopes and dreams. There are (very often) romantic intentions or a sea of otherwise hidden messages you hope to convey. Even if you manage to strip out all the weighty stuff and make a tape with ‘just some songs’ on it, it’s still a living, breathing thing with some kind of narrative behind it. And, because of that, the people who give and receive mixtapes possess and inherit more responsibilities than those who get a salad shooter or appliance as a gift. All of which is to say if someone makes you one, you owe them one back. If you give a mixtape to someone and get nothing in return, the unique exchange of our mysterious human experience dies. Basic Mixtape Etiquette 101.

NPR’s Robin Hilton responds to last week’s advice about how people to respond to mixtapes (via nprmusic)

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Our new single Another Tale From Another English Town will be available from itunes etc from Monday. 

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Gorgeous!!! Another album to look forward to!

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8 months since last post?? Well done me. Sometimes I tend to get caught in the Tumblr dashboard, never making it to actually posting something myself. But now I have something to write about. Junip are releasing a new self-titled album in a few weeks, and this the first single is just beyond this world. It's heart-achingly amazing and beautiful in all its simplicity. 

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Watch the Baltimore-based duo Wye Oak give a blistering live performance at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C.

Photos: Shantel Mitchell for NPR

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This is beyond awesome. Everybody needs some Wye Oak in their life.

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Discovered Scottish band Django Django yesterday via NPR's First Listen. Fortunately I quickly learned that their self-titled debut album is already out in Europe and we even have it at the library so have been listening A LOT the past two days.

Their music is a little hard to describe. A sort of surfer-phychy synth-folk? In any case, one of the most interesting albums I've come across this year! Good stuff.

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Always awesome and ultimate party band Casiokids have just released their "Olympiske leker" (Olympic games) video. Would make an incredible official song for the Olympics!

Also, use the hashtag #casiolympics on Twitter with your suggestion for a new olympic sport and win the new Casiokids album!

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Icelandic Of Monsters and Men perform "Mountain Sound" for NPR. Wonderful, wonderful.

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So, Fleet Foxes are branching out. Former member J. Tillman has previously released lovely solo albums and is now better known as Father John Misty - a moniker under which he released the amazing Fear Fun earlier this spring. 

And now Christian Wargo and Casey Wescott have joined forces with Ian and Peter Murray as Poor Moon. First songs from forthcoming album (out August) are already out on the interwebs and they sound very promising. They have the familiar sound of Fleet Foxes but with a twist. Kinda retro-folk. Very nice, nonetheless! 

Both albums are released by everybody's favourite label, Bella Union. 

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Just back from witnessing the first live performance of Hilary Hahn (US), violin, and Hauschka (D), prepared piano, at Asphalt, a Berlin club. I've previously seen Hauschka and he's really one of a kind, so I'd been looking forward to seeing how this partnership would turn out. 

Very well, it'd seem. Keeping in tune with the duo's brand new album, Silfra, all of the performed pieces tonight were purely improvised. You'd never have known. They have this otherworldly, almost telepathic, connection where they allow each other to do their bit on stage as well as complimenting each other like they'd done little else their entire lives. Such beauty.

Only slightly awkward moment of the night was near the end when we, the audience, in our jeans and comfortable shoes overlapped with arriving clubbers in stilettoes and miniskirts. Guess that was the first and probably only time Hauschka had girls with big hair, glitter dresses and 5" stilettoes attend one of his concerts?

Nevertheless, great show and just utterly beautiful and intriguing music.

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Beach House’s fourth album, Bloom, is unquestionably a Beach House record, and one that on the surface feels more like a continuation than the product of evolution. That is, until you go back and hear how far this band has truly come.

Stream Bloom now. 

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Beauty!! 

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Beginners is an amazing film. Starring Ewan McGregor and Christopher Plummer (the role landed Plummer his first Academy Award) as son and father and their relationship after the father, a man in his 70s, comes out as a homosexual. A unique, lovely and moving gem of a film.

Something that caught me instantly when watching the film was the score, and particularly the theme suite. A delicate piano solo that over the course of 8 minutes slowly elaborates and swells and underlines the film's emotions to perfection. Melancholic and hopeful. Needless to say, I had to go and buy the soundtrack. Fortunately Dussmann sold it to me for a mere 10€. It's one of those rare albums I just want to give to everyone I care about because it's so damn beautiful.