Sunday, December 28, 2014

Favorites of 2014

Three great albums: Beck's Morning Phase, The War on Drugs' Lost in the Dream, and Master Remix: Red Hot + Arthur Russell (tribute album).



1. The War on Drugs - Red Eyes
2. Beck - Turn Away
3. Mimicking Birds - Bloodlines
4. Strand of Oaks - Goshen '97
5. TV on the Radio - Quartz
6. Wye Oak - Logic of Color
7. Jesse Winchester - All That We Have is Now
8. Rodrigo Amarante - Irene
9. St. Vincent - Birth in Reverse
10. Hamilton Leithauser - 5am

Rest in peace, Jesse Winchester.

Shout out: Sufjan Stevens-  A Little Lost (Arthur Russell cover)

Previous faves: 2013 / 2012 / 2011 / 2010 / 2009 / 2008



Monday, December 22, 2014

Off the Grid

I feel a great lightness of being. It's fun wandering off without the nuisance of social media and tagged photos involuntarily documenting after you. Reverting to pre-internet outings makes me feel inexistent, without shadows nor footsteps. Sometimes I feel like a breeze in the wind and all of the sudden life is easy again. I need to remind myself this.

2014 had its beautiful moments. Too many to count.

Gregory Alan Isakov

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