Music Monday: Headlights / Broken Social Scene
Haven’t done one of these in a LOOONG time. But I need to, because I actually got a bunch of very good music over Christmas, and I’ve been selfishly hoarding it.
Headlights - Some Racing, Some Stopping
First up, my favorite FFFFest find Headlights has just put out a new album in the past couple of weeks. Some Racing, Some Stopping has a lot of similarities to their former album Kill Them With Kindness, but a bit more…experimental (not quite the right word), while still being very indie-pop oriented. Both these tracks are off Some Racing, Some Stopping.
Headlights - Cherry Tulips
Headlights - Catch Them All
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Broken Social Scene
I’ve known about Broken Social Scene peripherally for a while now, but mostly as “that other band that Emily Haines sings with (besides Metric) that I want to like but always end up skipping when it comes on my Slacker radio station because they’re kinda noisy.” Well, I got their self-titled CD at the library and figured out the problem: I usually listen to Slacker at night when I’m going to sleep, and Broken Social Scene isn’t sleeping music, it’s DRIVING music. Context is important.
Broken Social Scene is anchored by Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning, but also includes some fifteen or twenty musicians/singers who don’t all necessarily work on the same songs/albums. So Emily Haines sings two or three of the songs on this album (including1 “Swimmers” below), several of them are sung by Drew and/or Canning, and Feist even appears a time or two. Awesomeness. For a fuller list of BSS’s relations with other bands, see Wikipedia’s page. (Both of these tracks are from the album Broken Social Scene.)
Broken Social Scene - ibi dreams of pavement (a better day)
Broken Social Scene - Swimmers
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