I know I missed Music Monday last week. What with a paper due on Monday (which I just got back today, with a 95% yay!) and having postponed Sunday Night Movie Night with my friends to Monday night due to the paper, posting music just got a little lost. By the time I remembered, it was Thursday, and I figured I’d just wait until today.

Blog Finds

Fabulist.org had a couple of tracks from the soundtrack of Paris, je t’aime, a movie which I very, very much want to see, including this one by Feist. Most of Feist’s songs are in English, but this one is French, in keeping with the film. So yeah, I have no idea what she’s saying, but it sounds lovely anyway.

Feist – La meme histoire

And Fluxblog posted this quietly beautiful song from Citizen Helene. They described it perfectly, so I’ll just quote the image they conjured up when listening to it:

It’s a small apartment, a walk up in some old building with a gray stone facade. There are books in piles, too many to fit on the shelves. There’s empty tea cups on a coffee table, and a newspaper from three days ago folded out of shape. The decor is a bit scattered, but there’s a lot of browns and oranges — curtains, rug, pillows. The window is open, and rain drizzles in fits and starts. It’s a bit too humid, but there’s no fan, no air conditioner. There’s a couch and chairs, but you’re sitting on the floor by the window, and when a bit of breeze drifts in on the 1:13 mark, it might just be the best thing you feel all day.

Citizen Helene – Til Tomorrow

Retro Rock

The two bands I’ve picked this week both sound like blasts from the past, even though they’re very much up-and-comers. Everything old is new again, right?

Locksley

Locksley is a New York-based band; they played South by Southwest in Austin this spring, and I really wish I’d had the free time and money to go down there. Not just for them. But also for them. Their sound is very British Invasion, with all the joy and freedom of the early Beatles albums. And from what my friends who did go to South by Southwest tell me, they’re a great bunch of guys, too.

Locksley – Let Me Know
Locksley – Why Not Me

The Pipettes

My favorite XM Radio station showcased The Pipettes a few weeks ago as one of the hottest up and coming bands right now. And I got all happy because I’ve had Pipettes songs for months and months, and thus I am an early music adopter. Anyway, they’re an all-girl band from England, with a very unique vibe. It’s basically dance music, but oh so much fun to listen to. And their accents are very prominent, which always makes me happy. (Oh, by the way, the only disc Amazon has available is super-expensive, I suppose because it’s an import, but I got the album from emusic–really, the best legal mp3-downloading site there is, so you should try there.)

The Pipettes – Pull Shapes
The Pipettes – I Love You

(The Locksley and Pipettes streaming players are showing up in weird places for me on preview…someone let me know if they’re behaving oddly? I can’t figure out what would cause that…)