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[photo by bradford cox via achablive]

nowhere to go,
don’t take me home

(for the first time, in the below live version, i can clearly decipher the words.)

“sunday night” (originally posted as “sunday night in atlanta”) was posted charmingly to the deerhunter / atlas sound/ lotus plaza blog by lockett pundt back in ‘7. as he explains in the post, he had just purchased a new pitch-shifting pedal and went a little wild with it (i wonder how much of the track was improvised with the new pedal).

i remember being enamored of the track right off the bat, and we got to hear a polished version on his debut lp the floodlight collective. in a recent, rare (though maybe not for long, considering deerhunter’s newly-fastened hiatus) live set, deerhunter’s panda bear laid down a super drawn-out, guitar solo-laden rendition of the track at atlanta’s eyedrum. track kicks in around 11:20-11:25.

lotus plaza – live @ the eyedrum, atl (9.22.9) [via their blog/impose]

lockett pundt (lotus plaza) – sunday night in atlanta (original demo via blogpost)

lotus plaza – sunday night (off the floodlight collective) [via covert curiosity]

going through p2k this week i hit the handy play button pretty much all the tracks i didn’t know. i came upon this track at #152. apparently, it’s the reason they got signed, and while i’ve discovered i can’t really sit through their entire album, this track is a great postrock/scat gem.

says p4k,

It’s beautiful for many reasons– Robert Johnston’s lyrical guitar work and Sue Tompkins’ genius-baby sing-speak embody pure delight. But mostly, it’s beautiful because it feels like the stuff of spontaneous inspiration, the splatter-paint syllables falling into unrepeatable patterns. Remarkably, this is an illusion, as the faithful version captured on Live at the Annandale Hotel attests. The dense wordplay and Rorschach-blot diction make the hundredth listen feel almost as fresh as the first (in 2009, for instance, opening line “If I lose you” sounds an awful lot like “Fallujah”). But the emotional baseline, bursting with love and quavering with doubt, remains satisfyingly constant –Brian Howe

life without buildings – the leanover (download)

so this post has been my motivation to finally look into this artist, as this has been my summer jam since i first heard it on the great underwater peoples comp last month. (which i think will go down as one of the best-timed releases in [indie] history.)

turns out it’s just one dude with help from friends. some of his other stuff sounds like straight-ahead indie rock, some of it quirky folk, and some like lo-fi bedroom pop. this track, however, is the perfect summer song: sunny and shallow. it’s also just in the way this dude just sounds perpetually sundazed… too lazy to try to sing, too lazy to write much more than the repetitive “weyoh” and “come on away.” but it’s a perfectly fitting kind of lazy, and just floats on and then away like a summer mantra.

the compilation has been highly blogged but this track is an overlooked jewel.

dana jewell – baby come on (download)

dana jewell myspace

since my music taste is obsessive and fickle, i have found that i seem to have a soundtrack to each day. a track that i can’t stop playing and feel the need to tell others about.

for a long time i’ve thought about posting these up. and now, i’ve decided, why not.

much like everything else i do, there are very few rules. on some days, i may have multiple, and often, i may have none.

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the informations – for the rest of my day

for today it’s a random hypem find from sunday, a day i spent searching long for a new good song. frustrated, i came up dry until at midnight when this track randomly came on. it grabbed me as soon as the vocal kicked in, a sort of forced and strained high falsetto. weird enough that your ‘normal friends’ will ask you to ‘change that shit,’ but held together by a good melody and warm forward bounce.

it’s been two days since sunday, and i’m still enjoying this. but who is this band? ironically, it’s seriously difficult to find information on the un-googlable informations. looking at their myspace, they are from either sweden or japan (though the blogs that posted this all seem to be in french). maybe bands like this bask in the mysteriousness for a reason, and maybe it’s for the better. the song is good. makes me wonder how much everything else even matters.

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