I discovered St. Vincent thanks to a guest appearance on The Stephen Colbert Show, and her albums have been in regular rotation ever since.
“All dry and English slow”
True to type, I’m going with another sad song for my first Music Wednesday post of 2024.
“Everyone is laughing but me”
I’m surprised I haven’t already posted this because it’s one of my favourite songs but I’m going to fix that right now. It’s also a pretty depressing song which to be honest is probably part of why I like it so much.
“All I am is shreds of doubt”
I almost saw The National live but the day of the gig I ended up in the Emergency Department trying to work out whether I was dying.
“I can see you don’t approve”
I forget where I discovered Johnette Napolitano’s “Exquisite Corpses” album but I remember bouncing off it the first time I listened to it. I think it was because there’s a few spoken word, story tracks that are very distracting if I’m trying to work to music.
And then the randomization genie on Apple Music served me up this track. I found the album again and gave it another listen. Now I’m hooked.
Music for Writing [Part II]
I’ve been using Apple Music to build up a writing playlist for a long time now and it currently stands at 2326 song or 4.5 days of music. That’s pretty good. Of course, I quite often jump to my favourite albums and I listen to them over and over a lot of the time. There have been a few cases recently where I started listening to the soundtrack for a film before I’d seen it and listened to it so much that it made the film seem very familiar.
“See it. Say it. Sort It.”
This was recorded on a phone in a noisy British train station so the quality is hit and miss but it’s well worth persevering through the public announcer at the beginning.
“I’ve a good heart albeit insane”
This is probably the strangest music I’ve posted here yet. I’m using the lyric video because it’s the lyrics that drew me in.
