Although I spent most of my college day listen to the ruckus of Henry Rollins, Fugazi, and, stuff like Helmet as get older I love singer-song writers more and more--maybe it is the sudden drop in testorone in middle-age. I cannot stop listening to Sufjan Steven's album the Avalanche. It is compilation of out takes from the Illinois album. I think the whole thing comes off better than the original album.
Enjoy:
This video is fairly lame but the song is beautiful
This is some high school choir covering the same song. I'd say equally as cool.
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I get into mellow states of mind and listen to a lot of that sort of stuff. I'm a sucker for good lyrics and a hook.
Have you listented to M. Ward yet? His album Post-War is great. Andrew Bird is another mellow songwriter that has some good stuff. Red House Painters is good for a more country-ish version of the accoustic stuff as well as Sun Kil Moon.
When Craig was visiting us in NYC, we went to see The Long Winters who were great also.
Yhea I listened to a lot of Red House Painters in my records store days...one the last great 4AD bands. There was band called Cocaine from the short lived slo-core days that was really good. Andrew Bird...has he been around for a while?
I love songs that make me feel the way this song makes me feel.
Andrew Bird's been around since the mid-90s but I've only listened to him in the last few weeks. I'm currently working my way through his 2005 album The Mysterious Production of Eggs.
He has a lyrical style that reminds me of another singer/songwriter I like, Jeffrey Lewis- a funny sort of musician I've been listening to over the years who writes clever stuff and draws his own comics.
The problem with all these mellow bands, however, is that they aren't Sufjan Stevens. He is fantastic having such big songs that are equally intimate. That's why so many of his songs feel equally at-home as small, accoustic pieces and large, orchestral ones.
The closest, contemporary equivalent I can think of is Neutral Milk Hotel and their fantasting In the Aeroplane Over the Sea which fucking blew me away when I finally "got it". That album is really sad, though, so I wouldn't want to just drop a song in and listen to it the way I will with Sufjan Steven's work.
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