Most of the time, I can't seem to understand exactly what Scott Hutchison sings through his Scottish accent, but the raw emotion laid out in every Frightened Rabbit song I've heard is enough to sell me on the band. Every songwriting session must be laden with catharsis. Until seeing/listening to their recent stop by the KCRW Morning Becomes Eclectic program, I didn't realize how sweeping, soaring, and darn near epic (ok, so I might be exaggerating a bit, but the point is that there's more to it than I originally thought) their live performance can be. See for yourself:
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Friday, June 11, 2010
MOP II: Josh Rouse - 1972
Funny thing about ambition is that it only really works when coupled with discipline. Months ago, I posted something I call the Music Organization Project (MOP for short) and wrote about my rediscovery of "The Garden" by Zero 7 and I haven't really taken the time to do any laptop organization since. Due to some newfound organizational discipline stemming from some extensive filing work around my house (yeah, that's how exciting our weekends have been lately) and my slightly diminished to do list at work, I was able to dive back into the MOP today.
The fruit of my lunchtime labor is a return to the warm and sunny "1972" by Josh Rouse. I owe my introduction to Josh Rouse to catching a snippet of his song "Directions" while watching the movie Vanilla Sky. I ended up impulse buying his album "Under Cold Blue Stars" and couldn't have been happier with my blind spending. To this day, "Under Cold Blue Stars" remains one of my favorite albums and gets regular play on my stereo system, mp3 player, and work computer. My next Rouse purchase was backtracking to his debut album, "Dressed Up Like Nebraska". "1972" was the first Josh Rouse album I was able to get my hands on at the time of its release. It was a little strange to hear at first, because my 2 album Josh Rouse experience had me expecting some kind of modern folk/alt-country/americana to come out of the speakers. Instead (looking back, I can see that it was his goal), I was treated to something that could have come right out of the early 70s. I love it when something can be both new and somehow familiar, and Rouse hit it right on the head with "1972". I think this'll have to be the soundtrack for my ride home so I can smile my way through the inevitable weekend beach traffic I'm going to get stuck in.
Josh Rouse - Love Vibration
And because this makes me smile, here are 2 kids dancing to "Come Back (Light Therapy)" (also off of 1972)
The fruit of my lunchtime labor is a return to the warm and sunny "1972" by Josh Rouse. I owe my introduction to Josh Rouse to catching a snippet of his song "Directions" while watching the movie Vanilla Sky. I ended up impulse buying his album "Under Cold Blue Stars" and couldn't have been happier with my blind spending. To this day, "Under Cold Blue Stars" remains one of my favorite albums and gets regular play on my stereo system, mp3 player, and work computer. My next Rouse purchase was backtracking to his debut album, "Dressed Up Like Nebraska". "1972" was the first Josh Rouse album I was able to get my hands on at the time of its release. It was a little strange to hear at first, because my 2 album Josh Rouse experience had me expecting some kind of modern folk/alt-country/americana to come out of the speakers. Instead (looking back, I can see that it was his goal), I was treated to something that could have come right out of the early 70s. I love it when something can be both new and somehow familiar, and Rouse hit it right on the head with "1972". I think this'll have to be the soundtrack for my ride home so I can smile my way through the inevitable weekend beach traffic I'm going to get stuck in.
Josh Rouse - Love Vibration
And because this makes me smile, here are 2 kids dancing to "Come Back (Light Therapy)" (also off of 1972)
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