November 30, 2016
This group is really quite phenomenal. I knew they were good live, but they sounded amazing. While I was happy to hear them in such an intimate setting, I couldn’t help but feel that they deserved to be better known, given how good they are.
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November 28, 2016
Excited that Liz and I are going out to see Mipso perform on Wednesday, here in Chicago.
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November 23, 2016
I don’t actively seek out their music, but man oh man do I love the videos that OK Go produces. Spotted this one today and I’ve watched it a few times, marveling at how they were able to time out some of these sequences.
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November 18, 2016
It was described as a “difficult video to watch,” which in some ways is true. When I was focusing primarily on the woman in the video – it was tough to watch.
But then I started to shift my focus to the peripherals. I started to look past her, and at the things happening in the background.
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November 3, 2016
I’ve found this song really pleasant to code to. It builds gradually, and swells near the end – but it’s never too distracting. There’s something about the pacing and the tempo of the build that seems to just click really well for my brain. The cadence of it all seems to help
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August 26, 2016
“Feels like I’ll burst and explode any minute now,
for what heart can hold what is in it now?
The mess that we make, it will be glorious.
The mess that we make, just the two of us.”
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August 22, 2016
There are some musicians that sound great on their albums, and then there are others who sound equally great in person. I’m always in awe of performers who are just as good, live.
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July 26, 2016
Earlier this morning, thanks to a post by Merlin Mann, I found a whole set of new music to explore. The whole MetaFilter thread is worth checking out, as there are various links to some really great stuff.
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July 3, 2016
I’m a sucker for choirs, and as I listen to this for the umpteenth time realize how much I miss singing in a large group. I miss singing in general, but the feeling of being lost within a group of voices is a tremendous, almost transcendent feeling.
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June 29, 2016
“Won’t you give me a sign
before I lose my mind
Woah, Hallelujah, let me in”
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June 23, 2016
“When the sharpest blade’s in your shoulder, babe, I suppose,
Though you’re bound to cut anybody you pull close.”
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June 14, 2016
“The Weatherman,” by Gregory Alan Isakov is a favorite album of mine. Tonight, Liz and I got to listen to him perform at Thalia Hall.
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March 31, 2016
It’s basic and prevalent in a lot of songs, but there’s just something so terribly soothing about the chord progressions here: the shift from Am to Em to F. Like a car turning a corner slowly, only to straight out and continue on its way.
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March 8, 2016
The tempo is really constant. But the lyrics seem more off than just syncopated. They seem to arrive a half beat early. It’s hard to pin down, but it doesn’t quite feel in time with the rest of the song. It’s early, but just ever so slightly.
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February 23, 2016
One of my favorite moments of the song is the key change near the end (around 2:40 in the video). All of the band members sound so lovely, when their voices come together. Reminds me a lot of The Lone Bellow.
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