Soundtracks for my journey

This is a perfect album for my trip around southern Europe... summer sun everyday, but still feel quite melancholy because holidays don't last forever. I really love Yo La Tengo's music... gentle voices from Ira and Georgia can really calm my soul.

Europe by Allo Darlin' is the album of the year for me. Not because it's the best album, but it's an album I'll always remember the great time I had in Europe in 2012. Though no doubt the memories will fade someday, but...I'm alive, and I'm living. Life is about living, not traveling, you know.

一個人閒晃在大街上，聽這張EP真的心情會變好。我覺得這張的歌超級陽光，夏日豔陽下，戴著耳機，拎著啤酒，到處亂晃，這世界還有甚麼比讓自己開心更重要的事？

I Trawl The Megahertz

My favourite audiobook. I think everyone should listen to this incredible 20-mins track with hauntingly beautiful music and poetic words. It's like a lullaby, a dream, a movie script, a transitional conscious state between reality and fiction that exists only in the soundscape of "I Trawl The Megahertz".

'Your daddy loves you,' I said
'Your daddy loves you very much,
He doesn't want to live with us anymore.'
I am telling myself the story of my life

Lord you gave me nothing, then you took it all away


Repeat after me: happiness is only a habit
I'm listening to the face in the mirror
but I don't think I believe what she's telling me

And these are the footsteps you follow
The tracks of impossible love

They may help us make sense of who we are and where we came from
And, as a compassionate side effect
Teach us that nothing is ever lost

Home

"But it had come to that point where I was looking for something like a home-- I didn't have a home in the world, so I wanted a home in someone else, in a person."

I don't know when it all started... but I've developed this desperate longing for a home. I really don't have a home in this world, not here, not there, not anywhere. Now I'm living off my backpack, hopping from this bed to that bed, and it's gonna last for the next 3 months, which means I won't be able to settle down anytime soon. Being constantly on the move, how could I possibly find a home in a person? I'm lost. I wanna go home, but I don't know where it is yet. If the price is to give up my freedom, I'm willing to pay.

Note: David Byrne likes the topic of home. The movie "This Must Be The Place" is also about home (of course!). I feel like Senn Penn in the movie... traveling from places to places, except I'm not even on a mission for revenge. On the album which he collaborates with Brian Eno (a great album), there's a song called "Home" - Where home, comes to life from out of the blue... 

Erik de Vahl

This is one of my favourite albums this year. I don't listen to a lot of new music. But, this is very nice. Independently released on an obscure label called Look. I'm not sure exactly how this label works... it's just a Swedish thing I guess. They like to keep it secret, or some kind of mystery. But it seems like Erik de Vahl, The Embassy and Most Valuable Players are all on this label now.

Back to the album, the label describes "Erik de Vahl's music is a true time document of the 21st century. Classy songwriting mixed with funky/moody electronics. A latter-day Durutti Column, always snoopy and very proud." For me, it's very meditative and enjoyable to listen to. When I leave Sweden, if I listen to this album again, I will miss the days listening to his music and immersing myself in the Swedish landscape.

Sharing Different Heartbeats...

Yeah, y'know, I was there last night. This song (by The Knife) brings me sad memories... so Jose's version is just perfect.

Swingin' Party

Jessica Jalbert - Swingin' Party Kindness - Swingin' Party


這首歌, 最近突然很受歡迎... 不過翻唱都是冷冷的電子版,  這就是我們這個年代的聲音?

"Ex-Factor"

QUADRON - "EX-FACTOR" from Coco + Robin = Quadron on Vimeo.

This is a crazy cover... of Miss Lauryn Hill. She has to be pleased to see this.

這幾首歌重複播放中．．．

Archers of Loaf - "Fabricoh"from Lance Bangs on Vimeo
Rocking Out! Rocking Out! 喜歡 The Replacements 的人可以試試他們~

Rhye - 3 Days
我好期待他們的新專輯, 會不會像EP依樣每一首都好聽?

The Apples in Stereo - 7 Stars
真是靠背的朗朗上口~

30 Century Man

“Even David Bowie - the executive producer of this exceptionally smart documentary - admits it: Scott Walker is the original avant-garde crooner.” The Rolling Stone

“A fascinating meditation on the nexus of art and celebrity with a deeply charismatic figure at its center…one of the most remarkable music documentaries in ages. Not to be missed.” Box Office Magazine

I really like it, because I really like his music, and his personal philosophy, and his philosophy about music. If you haven't heard of him, this film can be a good introduction. But it's really rewarding to watch this documentary after spending some time with his music. It's also very interesting that he never listen to his records once it's finished (that's why he never tour). I remember all the master filmmakers are like that too.

In anticipation of ATP...

 
I just wanna post some songs with the lyrics I like. This weekend is going to be huge!
London, Minehead, Mr Mangum, Mr Merritt, awesome music, here I come~

Open

Somehow, I feel this video is very appropriate for the song.
Your body is my temporary home, I don't mean to stay long.
So stay open, and let me in, by the time you wake up, I will be gone.

who are Rhye?

Cheers To Me

cheers to me by NEW FRIENDS

Burial

從我認真開始聽音樂到現在已經有七八年了，而這段時間裡，經過了很多不一樣的時期。喜歡的音樂類型也隨著而改變。從英搖，獨立搖滾，獨立花草，慢慢地回頭聽，去尋找那些不屬於我過去的音樂。同時，也不斷地在吸收每年發行的新音樂。但最近這幾年，我對過去喜歡的那些音樂類型漸漸失去了熱情。反而是新一代的嘻哈樂和電子樂，留住了我對音樂仍懷有的好奇和興致。但老實說，最近這一年來，我聽比較多的是沒有人聲的這兩個音樂曲風。簡單說，就是聽著重複的拍子，潛伏在暗處的強勁貝斯，再加上許多其他詭異的聲音效果。不知為何，但我覺得時下這種新品種音樂很適合現在的我，和很多其他現代人。其實，我沒有打算介紹這些音樂種類（像是 dub-step, post-dubstep, 2-step...)，因為我這類的音樂聽得也沒有那麼多，也不想要以偏概全，在這裡我只想介紹一下 Burial。

Stop Making Sense

Talking Heads in this movie are what I'd call "in the zone". They are ecstatic at playing music and enjoying themselves. I really appreciate that. Sometimes, I think musicians are whores, they repeat themselves just to earn more money and keep customers happy. But, not for Talking Heads, they play because they really enjoy it. Rarely, I see a performance like this, recorded and edited so well. It is quite incredible. No doubt, Byrne is a genius at performing, but what really hooked me up is his genius of songwriting. And Tina? So adorable when she dances ♥! For rock documentary, this is kind of perfect for me, you don't get much better than this.

XXX

The Detroit Tiger...

On my way home from Gothenburg, I listened to the entirety of Danny Brown's XXX (And it's free). Man, it's such a great album! Some of the lines he spit made me wanna laugh out loud, but I couldn't because of other people on the bus. Its extreme obsceneness becomes extremely laughable. The album as a whole is fucking great... it's got his fun side and his dark side. I don't claim to know that much about Hip-Hop, but this is the real shit.

Lianne La Havas

No Room For Doubt

Forget (Shlohmo Remix)

2011 Music List (No Particular Order)

Top 10 
Destroyer :: Kaputt
Shabazz Palaces :: Black Up
Bon Iver :: Bon Iver
St. Vincent :: Strange Mercy
Jenny Hval :: Viscera
The Weeknd :: House of Balloons
Korallreven :: An Album By Korallreven
Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat :: Everything’s Getting Older
James Blake :: James Blake
Shlohmo :: Bad Vibes

'Upside Down' - The Creation Records Story

For me, I've already known most of the story. It's good to see these people reflecting the glory days, though I could only understand half of what they are saying. It's a must-see documentary for those who love creation records artists. I feel... the documentary is a bit too short, I wish to see more footages of them, riot live gig, crazy backstage, people stoned with E, or whatever drugs they were taking. Well... too bad you don't really get to see much new. Nonetheless, the ending message is good, "you see, it's a fallacy. our dreams are so huge, enormous and vast, we can never fully meet them. The rule really is to be grateful for everything." indeed.

Not A Friend

Another song about the story of my life.

New Albums I'm Really Into...

Clam Casino - Instrumental Mixtape

>>alone at night, this is a perfect soundtrack for night riding, but I listen to it almost all the time. with the beats hitting in my headphone, everything feels ready to expand into the unknown. really, atmospheric music is my thing, loud or minimalism.

Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Mirror Traffic

>> i like the album cover, but it's the music I enjoy. Malkmus' songwriting seems to have become mature, cuz he can write whatever he feels like, but at the same time, he hasn't improved at all, still singing with the same old random cynicism.

Jenny Hval - Viscera

>> still trying to figure out her lyrics. probably the most powerful and interesting lyricist I have heard in a long time. her voice brings names like Joni Mitchell, Kate Bush, Linda Perhacs to mind. a very versatile artist who put out a versatile debut album, and it flows effortlessly. sublime stuff.

Bon Iver - Bon Iver

>> this album is a grower. unusually beautiful and exquisite. to put it into a scenario, Emma was like a breakup night, sad and lonely. this album takes place the following morning, when he's still half sleeping, dreaming, slowly awakening...