The Rumor Said Fire - The Life And Death Of A Male Body

This album from Denmark's "Most Talented New Act", and winners of the P3Guld award in Denmark, is a beautiful mixture of strong male harmonies and interesting melodies that is sure to seize your ears instantly and then continue to grow on you as you to listen to it. Although there are only six tracks on this EP there are certainly no 'filler tracks' that are all too common on albums these days.

The album starts off strong with 'The Balcony' that features light insrumentation like harmonica and tamborines and would create a picturesque soundtrack for a movie ending with the blissful holding of hands and an over all sunny yellow wash. And then the album transitions to 'Evil Son', a track that is very much reminiscent of their Danish musical rivals Mew. But all comparisons aside it is a very strong track that is much more bass and drum driven. Next is 'In The Sour' which takes me back to The Shin's 'Wincing The Night Away' but you can't mistake the prevalent forign undertones that resound throughout the album as a whole. Then the album contiunes with 'The Post Mortem Makes Us Men' that has a lot of energy, then they take it back down with acoustic guitar, poetic lyrics and subtle harmonies that would make Simon & Garfunkel proud in 'Red Light'. The album finishes with 'Dance' that holds together the album as a whole and, like a quality wine, it leaves you with a good taste in your mouth... maybe should I say a good tone in your ears? Eh, I think you get my point!

Withouth further ado I will say that I rarely recommend artists that aren't worth buying the complete album, and I certainly haven't started with The Rumor Said Fire! You can find this album on itunes and it is well worth your money.

If you like Kent, Mew, Simon & Garfunkel, or The Shins then I suggest checking them out!

Fanfarlo

Imagine you're walking through the english country side of a gold tinted film set, what music do you hear playing? If you don't know then perhaps you should check out one of the hot new acts in the music scene biz. Their album 'Reservoir' was recently featured on the front page of itunes but my faithful friend Pandora had introduced me to them much earlier. In music I believe that generic comparisons often dull the bright shining newness of music that can truly only be described as modern and revived, but for the sake of those who wont likely take my word for the value of having this album in your collection and for the people who chronically are misled by the thirty second tidbits provided by our itunes friends at apple, I will make a few such comparisons. I would best describe them as a optimistic mixture of the vocal style of Arcade Fire and the old worldy style of Beruit. Like I said I heard some of their stuff on Pandora while trying to seek mental refuge from the monotony of my 8-5 desk job and decided to put one of my iphone's many features of unbridled financial expenditure and purchased not one or two songs but the entire album. As my brother Garron always says that he thinks ipods/itunes have taken away the 'natural selection' in the music industry. Not only can an quote on quote artist achieve fame and wealth with just one or two decent songs, thus euthanizing the requirement of being able to create an entire album that is worth purchasing, but the large labels are limping along from billboard hit to billboard hit, from Nickelback to Kings of Leon to Nickelback again. So all that to say that I think Garron is right and so when I actually come across a band that can write and record an entire quality and cohesive album it's certainly worth noting. So without further embellishment I'll leave you to your musical tastes and hope that you will give them a listen!

"The walls the walls are coming down, the here and now is coming round..."

Motion is good, busy is the price.

So I always do the whole "Oh I'm going to blog more now" bit when I haven't been on here in months. I don't know why I do that... I know as soon as I post on this thing I'm going to forget all about it. But hey I'll give a quick update on things is suppose. I don't know what was going on when I posted last but I've got a job, it's fine... close to home, people are nice, etc. Not what I plan on doing for the rest of my life but hey it pays the bills and it doesn't make me want to kill myself :-). School is fine but pretty much takes up all of the free time I had. But it's forward motion so I'm a fan of it... life felt like it was standing still for far too long. Motion is good, busy is the price you pay for it.

I've been writing a lot lately, both songs and what will hopefully someday be a book. I hate even saying that on here because if it turns out that I never finish it or if it's just really stupid I don't like the pressure of people knowing that I was trying to write it at one point... oh well, that's just one of my odd phobias of expectations/commitment I suppose.

Well my work week is almost over so I better get some of this stuff done. I only have today and a half day tomorrow before I head out to Tyler for my cousins' double wedding. It's gonna be a good time y'all! I can't wait to see everyone and have some major dance time!