…is something I can’t see to find. Funeral this morning, birthday this afternoon, four-hour drive upstate to pick up my son from college tonight. So we’re using conditional logic this week: I went to my music library and filtered all the songs with the word “time” in them. Then based on that created this week’s playlist.
Which is below.
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toe (lowercase on purpose) is a beautiful reason why brick and mortar stores will always be valuable in the music community. There’s a good chance I might never have heard them if I wasn’t visiting Needle + Groove, my local shop. Amanda, the manager at the time has one of the most eclectic musical tastes I’ve ever encountered, and it was my luck she was spinning the band’s songs, ideas we forgot compilation and I was instantly hooked by their use of odd rhythms and beautiful melodies. I devoured everything, but it was years before Now I See The Light, the band’s fourth full-length and first in almost a decade was released. Far from losing a step, the record shows the band honing the songs to within an inch of their life, and the results are gorgeous and fragile, delicate as the mist in early morning.
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I’m about halfway through the next Flower Kings review, and also have a bunch of catchup work, both paying and not, that’s kept me from regular posting this week. So we’re going to keep things brief for this week’s playlist, which is going to highlight tracks from my favorite albums of the year so far. Think of it as a mid-year report, except it’s coming about a month and half too late. And to make up for the lack of commentary, and because there’s so much to love about music in 2024, we’re expanding one time from 1 hours to 2 hours.
Lots of different styles and genres within, so let’s cut the chit-chat and get to it.
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It has been a week, folks. No sleep, a complete freakout at 2am this morning because I realized at that moment that I mistook AM for PM when book my family’s vacation weeks ago, meaning instead of arriving at 11:59AM and meeting our friends for the day we weren’t arriving until midnight. Try booking a new flight and canceling your old one with a day’s notice when there’s a global Microsoft outage affecting the banks and airlines (thanks, Cyberstrike!). Anyway, I need this vacation more than even I realized, and this playlist reflects some of the kind of music I’ll be pushing through my earholes over the next 10 days.
Which means posting here is going to be pretty limited until I return in August. Anyway, let’s see what’s on deck.
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Consuming the Tangible 