Life is complicated and busy. Did you notice? Keeping up with the music, movies and books that fed your youthful imagination and conversations is harder than ever, but even more important. Here's the good news: there's never been more great new stuff. The challenge is to find it.

So here are my highly opinionated views on sounds, sights and words that will help you keep it fresh and real, and links to the veins where the richest motherlodes can be found.

Feed your head.
- JumpingFlashJack

Saturday, October 20, 2012

Fall Playlist

October is my favorite month: longer nights that make the shorter, sunny days seem sweeter, even as the sun loses its heat.  A "back to school" feel long after you've stopped going back to anything.  A Presidential election and a World Series that leave us all expectant and stuff.

Take a chilly run outside or sit by the fire with this stuff in your ears and see if this fall harvest helps you find a new attitude.


Divine Fits, Would That Not Be Nice - Remember "supergroups"?  Blind Faith, Band of Gypsies, CSN? Inspired pairings that stretched everyone involved?  Get ready to be stretched by this amalgam of Spoon and Wolf Parade.   A top ten 2012 pick.  (Well, it's the fourth quarter already, c'mon).



Solange, Losing You - Beyonce's baby sister hits it out of the park on a tune that sounds like Madonna back in the day, the day being sometime in 1986.  Got a problem with that? 





Storm Queen, Look Right Through You - Note to self:  Get the New Year's Eve party started with this.  



Lianne Le Havas, Is Your Love Big Enough?  23 year-old Brit serving up a spicy stew of folk and soul that just won her a Mercury Prize nomination.  Move over, Adele.  



Bloc Party, Day Four - New British Invasion.  I surrender. 



Daphni - Ye Ye - An electronic wash that will make you hear the sound of your synapses firing.  Interested?  Read Sasha Jones-Frere on Dan Snaith (a.k.a. Daphni) :

 http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/musical/2012/10/08/121008crmu_music_frerejones 


Boo!

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