Love of the Day: Great Waves by Dirty Three

Okay, so after last weeks' incredibly wordy post (seriously, all of those adverbs! What was I thinking?! At least 70% of those are coming out before that goes in my imaginary writing portfolio), today I bring you a lazy song post, almost completely free of babble.  Well, it is a bank holiday weekend after all.

I discovered this track a few years ago when I was feasting upon anything I could find with violins in it (Dirty Three definitely have violins), and subsequently forgot about it completely.  But I happened to watch a trapeze video on YouTube today which had this song as a soundtrack and remembered how lovely it is. Cat Power/Chan Marshall's voice is deliciously hypnotic, perfect for a drifty, zoned-out Sunday afternoon.  Or anytime really, let's face it.  Anyway, I'll shut up and let you listen - enjoy!

Love of the Day: I Break Horses

Oops, bit of a gap since the last post, sorry! I have had a brain full of bland, grey mizzle for the last week and haven't really felt any love for, or been bugged by, anything much (unless you count painfully falling over a cat and down the stairs, incurring a giant purple bruise on my ass.  That did bug me a little.  In case you're wondering, the cat escaped unharmed the little bastard).

Anyhow, I've been listening to a few tracks by I Break Horses and one of them has sent a thin ray of sunshine through the brain-clouds so I thought I would share it:



It's been perfect for walking around Glasgow to - just uplifting enough to stop me throwing myself under a passing bus, but not so ridiculously cheerful that it clashes inappropriately with the nasty dank weather and bleak surroundings, hurrah!

I Break Horses are Scandinavian (Swedish), just like everything else I've been enjoying recently it seems.  I dream of going there someday soon.... in the summer when it gets lighter and stuff.  Scotland is enough for now!!