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, November 28, 2015

Late Harvest

December.  Can it be?  Before the songs of Christmas both ancient and new start to fill your ears, here's one more dose of the Zeitgeist -- new sounds full of the confusion and promise of 2015.   No Adele here folks; you get enough of that in your spin class.

Blood Orange, Sandra's Smile - Dev Hynes just keeps topping himself and "The Gloved One."



El Vy, Return to the Moon - C'mon, you always wondered what The National would sound like on anti-depressants.


Beirut, Gibraltar - Best handclaps of 2015.


Janet Jackson, No Sleep - She's back, all slinky and fly like it's 1999. 


Ryan Adams, Bad Blood - Covering all of Taylor Swift's 1989 seemed like a stunt, but damn if he doesn't pull it off.


Son Little, Lay Down -  Slow cooking on the back porch, with a dash of Bill Withers and Michael Kiwanuka.



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