i get impatient with every word
THE YEAR OF THE CROWS AND LOCUSTS
[A Nick/Ellis FST]
Love in a post-apolytical world isn't all that spectacular or ideal-- but it's something. Thirteen songs that are bitter, moody, melancholy, or just downright deranged with just a twinge of hope. Links on the song titles if available leads to the music video. The entire thing is zipped up for you at the bottom.
01. BROOKE FRASER Crows & Locusts
Title song. The rumble is low and the heat is high / Got a feeling that there's rain out in the oil black sky / Gonna chase away the devil when that sun does rise /Gonna plead the blood.
02. THE WEEKND Wicked Games
Nick song. Cynical, sleezy, with honey dripping on every lewd word. Like you stepped in a smoky lounge looking for a hard drink coming out of a bad breakup.
03. KINGS OF LEON Closer (Presets Remix)
Certified to get goosebumps crawling up and down your arm -- with hazy moans lingering in the background and the lyrics painting a desolate, decripit town, all the while reminding you that "it's coming closer".
04. AUSTRA Lose It
Soaring, ethereal voices that's surprisingly resilient, given that it's going on about fears and disappointment.
05. MOTOPONY I Am My Body
THE Ellis song-- don't be fooled by the jangly, twangy country strumming and the pop-happy clapability of this barnyard song, listen a little harder to the lyrics: When I get my body back to the earth don’t put me in no box like y'all have done / Feed me to the cows, feed me to the chickens and the sows, feed me to the ones that I eat now!
06. PLANNINGTOROCK Doorway (Creep Remix)
Staccato synths punctuate this gloomy six-minute trip into another dimension, with your only companion an unintelligible voice stuttering so brilliantly.
07. YACHT Dystopia (The Earth is On Fire)
Disco-y, a little tribal, and jerky, taking no prisoners as it storms through with declarations of a New World Order.
08. THE REBORN IDENTITY Hyperlux (Björk vs. Clint Mansell)
Björk layered onto an adventure movie staple, as the orchestra rages and swells around her starkly pure voice.
09. SUMMER CAMP I Want You
There's nothing really off limits with Summer Camp-- as they straight up tell you that they're planning to make you love them in a number of rather interestingly morbid ways. Of that desperation of wanting to be with someone that you'll never have a chance with-- unless you kill them. But they're so sincere about it that you almost agree to it.
10. BON IVER Skinny Love (Das Kapital Rerub)
You can never really go wrong with Bon Iver, who brings his tired, burnt-out soul and accuses you about everything under the sun in the most passive-aggressive manner. You still love him for it. And I told you to be patient, I told you to be fine. I told you to be balanced, and I told you to be kind.
11. ROYAL BANGS My Car is Haunted
Straight up rock, gleefully traipsing around in a post-apocalyptic world with no apologies whatsoever.
12. FOLLICLE Illinois
Getting through this blurry, growling song without slipping into ennui is a feat that I still haven't mastered. Whispers warbling through your skull, as it hesitates, changes directions, and pulls you along the path of quiet trepidation.
13. JJ FEAT.YVES SAINT LORENTZ - The End
Seagulls and 'the end' chanting over and over again in the background-- a dichotomy of hopefulness and finality, meshed up into a swirling, orchestral, heavenly package complete with fluttery echoes and steady drums.
If you liked this selection, head on over to soundwire for more songs!
[Download @ Mediafire]
[A Nick/Ellis FST]
Love in a post-apolytical world isn't all that spectacular or ideal-- but it's something. Thirteen songs that are bitter, moody, melancholy, or just downright deranged with just a twinge of hope. Links on the song titles if available leads to the music video. The entire thing is zipped up for you at the bottom.
01. BROOKE FRASER Crows & Locusts
Title song. The rumble is low and the heat is high / Got a feeling that there's rain out in the oil black sky / Gonna chase away the devil when that sun does rise /Gonna plead the blood.
02. THE WEEKND Wicked Games
Nick song. Cynical, sleezy, with honey dripping on every lewd word. Like you stepped in a smoky lounge looking for a hard drink coming out of a bad breakup.
03. KINGS OF LEON Closer (Presets Remix)
Certified to get goosebumps crawling up and down your arm -- with hazy moans lingering in the background and the lyrics painting a desolate, decripit town, all the while reminding you that "it's coming closer".
04. AUSTRA Lose It
Soaring, ethereal voices that's surprisingly resilient, given that it's going on about fears and disappointment.
05. MOTOPONY I Am My Body
THE Ellis song-- don't be fooled by the jangly, twangy country strumming and the pop-happy clapability of this barnyard song, listen a little harder to the lyrics: When I get my body back to the earth don’t put me in no box like y'all have done / Feed me to the cows, feed me to the chickens and the sows, feed me to the ones that I eat now!
06. PLANNINGTOROCK Doorway (Creep Remix)
Staccato synths punctuate this gloomy six-minute trip into another dimension, with your only companion an unintelligible voice stuttering so brilliantly.
07. YACHT Dystopia (The Earth is On Fire)
Disco-y, a little tribal, and jerky, taking no prisoners as it storms through with declarations of a New World Order.
08. THE REBORN IDENTITY Hyperlux (Björk vs. Clint Mansell)
Björk layered onto an adventure movie staple, as the orchestra rages and swells around her starkly pure voice.
09. SUMMER CAMP I Want You
There's nothing really off limits with Summer Camp-- as they straight up tell you that they're planning to make you love them in a number of rather interestingly morbid ways. Of that desperation of wanting to be with someone that you'll never have a chance with-- unless you kill them. But they're so sincere about it that you almost agree to it.
10. BON IVER Skinny Love (Das Kapital Rerub)
You can never really go wrong with Bon Iver, who brings his tired, burnt-out soul and accuses you about everything under the sun in the most passive-aggressive manner. You still love him for it. And I told you to be patient, I told you to be fine. I told you to be balanced, and I told you to be kind.
11. ROYAL BANGS My Car is Haunted
Straight up rock, gleefully traipsing around in a post-apocalyptic world with no apologies whatsoever.
12. FOLLICLE Illinois
Getting through this blurry, growling song without slipping into ennui is a feat that I still haven't mastered. Whispers warbling through your skull, as it hesitates, changes directions, and pulls you along the path of quiet trepidation.
13. JJ FEAT.YVES SAINT LORENTZ - The End
Seagulls and 'the end' chanting over and over again in the background-- a dichotomy of hopefulness and finality, meshed up into a swirling, orchestral, heavenly package complete with fluttery echoes and steady drums.
If you liked this selection, head on over to soundwire for more songs!
[Download @ Mediafire]