Posts Tagged ‘ folk ’

If you were wondering what bands make up the soundtrack to LHNA’s summer so far, here are some albums and EPs I’ve had on repeat as of late: Learning by Perfume Genius Pitchfork may have named “Mr. Peterson” Best New Track but really this is an album that must be heard as a whole....
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Your dog, tranquil and innocent, dozes through our cries, our murmured dawn conspiracies our telephone calls. She knows - what can she know? If in my own arrogance I claim to read her eyes, I find there only my own animal thoughts: that creatures must find each other...
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Hannah and Samuel, a.k.a The Woodlands released their first, self-titled album recently. As soon as we listened to it we dug out our English dictionaries and started flipping desperately through them, looking for the right words to describe it. They had to be beautiful words, big words, words that hadn’t been used before! We...
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*illustration by Drew Beckmeyer - check out his site here* John Vanderslice – Fetal Horses (Romanian Names, 2009) John Vanderslice – Romanian Names (Romanian Names, 2009) * John Vanderslice – Wild Strawberries (Cellar Door, 2004) “Wholly and totally brave I swam under dying Philippino light Fighting and furious against the tide ’cause I lost...
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Ladies and gentlemen, your refreshments for the day: The Limes – Dead FurnitureThe Limes – Sao Francisco Waters * find them on MySpace ** illustration by Ian DIngman *
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image found here ✂ Chau Fan – Boletos de tren
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“there’s nobodythere’s no mountainthere’s no tunnelyou can’t get from there to here” Beck – Atmospheric Conditions “roll out your silver-dollar coffinspull out your buckskin glovestell them anything you want tothe sound comes from above don’t let it get near youdon’t let it get too closedon’t let it turn you intothe things you hate the...
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☆ pic ☆ Okay, our beloved Decemberists might have disappointed us a little with Hazards of Love, but it’s not all bad. For one thing, there are other bands we love putting out great new singles. Anyone else totally obsessed with “Now We Can See” or “Gimme Sympathy“? I’ve been playing both something like...
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Okay I’ve been listening to Hazards of Love, and I have one word to describe it. Weird. I mean listen to Queen’s Rebuke! Wow. Do I need to atte- Actually, you know, fuck it. I don’t have only one word to describe it, I have several: weird, awkward, inconsistent, WHYY??? Why are you doing...
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*by Ahren Hertel* I don’t think we’ve ever written anything about Emmy the Great. Which is weird because, if you had asked me a year ago to give you ten reasons for starting this blog, five of the reasons would have been variations of “to make everyone love Emmy the Great”. Well, it seems...
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What do we know about them? Their Myspace site describes them as ‘lyrical/surf ‘ and they appear to consist of Nate Lacy, Tim Skellenger, and Aaron Hanson. Though Nate Lacy appears to be the heart, right leg and both hands of the band; he also does the artwork and mostly records alone. They’re influenced...
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An African-American is president of the United States. Not only that, but a half-Kenyan is president of the United States. Not only that, but in one of the first lines of his victory speech he addresses homosexuals. Now I don’t know about you but this makes me believe that maybe – just maybe –...
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photograph by Bettina Rheims Sara Lov – My Body Is a Cage (Arcade Fire Cover)
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*** Cara Del Gato – This Town Ain’t What It Used to Be *** *** Emmy the Great – City Song *** *** Antsy Pants – Big City ***
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artwork by Anthony Pontius Hooves In Our Talons My Oldest Memory (all from Bowerbirds‘ brilliant ‘Hymns for a Dark Horse’)
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