"That tiny handful of lists — okay, it's more like hundreds of overstuffed wheelbarrows full of lists — reveals something of a critical consensus around a bunch of titles that were far easier for me to admire than love. Grizzly Bear's Veckatimest, Animal Collective's Merriwether Post Pavilion and Dirty Projectors' Bitte Orca had several things in common: All are wildly inventive, widely beloved, creatively made marvels, and I can't recall more than a handful of words from any of them. They're worthy of recommendation, to be sure, but they didn't feel fully relatable; call me a soppy mope, but at the end of a given year, I'm far more likely to dwell on albums and songs that exude a fair bit of earned insight, even ache."
-Stephen Thompson
5. Thao with the Get Down Stay Down- Know Better Learn Faster
(These are all from an older album, but the video is too fabulous not to post.)
4. St. Vincent - Actor
3. Bill Callahan- Sometimes I Wish We Were Eagles
2. Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
1. Andrew Bird - Noble Beast
So I seem to have already posted every official Andrew Bird video from this album, so here he is with St. Vincent.
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I must say, you have gorgeous taste in music. Two of my favorites of all time, one who's consistently pleasing, and two more that are two of my new favorites. I got to see Neko Case in Kansas City over the summer and she showed the video for "People Got a Lotta Nerve" on the screen behind her as she played it. Amazing.
Ok, here's the thing. I know that she's busy, and I know that sometimes I can harange seemingly meaninglessly. But honestly, when it was flowing, this was one of my favorite blogs on the internet, and not just because I know her.
Part of what's keeping her so busy is learning to be a librarian, which she has not hesitated to say is really about managing information and making it available to people. Isn't that what a blog is? Couldn't this be a forum for a little, admittedly perhaps tangential, excercise of those skills she was learning?
She probably just doesn't feel like it anymore, or she figures she'll do it eventually after school is over, or start a new blog. But if she's still following some of our favorite artists (old and new), as long as she's still discovering undiscovered obscurities of the internet, and as long as she's saying WThF?, I wish she would do it internet-aloud instead of just to herself.
I'm just sayin'.
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