Hi, everyone! Well, I’m back from Scotland. And even though I’m not yet an immortal, I still had a pretty great trip (including my very first taste of haggis). Naturally, of course, there’s lots of great stuff to catch up on… So, why not come and join me for a recap of things that happened while I was away?
Hey, everyone! I’m heading up North to Scotland for a week of relaxation, hiking, ceilidh dancing, and, naturally, discovering immortality after being stabbed, left for dead, and then awoken by the world’s only Scottish Spaniard. So, as you can imagine, it’s a full week.
But never fear! While you won’t have me to feed you little bits of things, you’ll have plenty to keep you covered.
The fine folks over at Aural States pointed me towards the warm, folk-tinged music of Small Sur, and I’ve been happily listening to it all evening. In fact, it’s fair to say that it has become my evening – pushing aside the English Summer to make room for visions of vast, American forests and skies. All I’m missing, really, is a campfire and the gentle hum of crickets… Here’s how the folks at Aural States describe the band:
Small Sur stands opposed to today’s quantity-over-quality stampede, in which the pursuit of fleeting Internet notoriety threatens creative continuity, growth, and a sustained sonic relationship that honors the listener as well as the creator. The band’s patient, near-obsessive exploration of warmth, depth, and space makes each offering an experience rich in sensory detail—quietly compelling listeners to turn their iPods off shuffle and allow the entire release to envelop them from start to finish. […]
Small Sur is the primary musical alias of Baltimore-based songwriter Bob Keal and current collaborators Austin Stahl and Andy Abelow. The project was born during the spring of 2005 in a friend’s Southern California bedroom, where Keal recorded the self-titled Small Sur EP shortly before relocating to the East Coast…
Hey, everyone! Welcome to another installment of our news round-up series… Lots of nifty things going on, this week, and so we’ll just get right to it.
Pitchfork: TV is running The Life of the World to Come, a film directed by Rian Johnson (Brick), as part of its One Week Only series. The film features The Mountain Goats‘ John Darnielle playing the album of the same name in its entirety at Pomona College. And as you would expect, it’s pure awesome. Just follow me, and you can see for yourself!
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