Loney Dear Archives - The Earology Dept.

I’ve come across a veritable deluge of outstanding music since I began this music blog back in August 2011. And when music is such an integral part of one’s existence you get very picky, developing quite a discerning ear for what will and will not cut the mustard. I came across Kishi Bashi by a fortuitous accident. I was searching for tickets for the Loney Dear show in Chicago with Of Montreal headlining on March 28th at the Metro. But I found so much more, for also on this bill was, at the time an unknown artist, Kishi Bashi. So, I being the curious sort I went looking for all things related to Kishi Bashi and boy was I rewarded. It went something like this Facebook, Twitter, kishibashi.com, and then ended beautifully at kishibashi.bandcamp.com. It was like uncovering a serendipitous mystery of sorts. A mystery, which in the end left me with an incredible first impression of the inventive, and highly accomplished musician K Ishibashi. The Room For Dream EP is four extraordinary songs brimming with enough spine tingling effervescence, upon listening you’d swear your Set-Adrift-On-A-Memory-Bliss. The utter vitality of the music makes you want to succumb to one of the most primal impulses known to mankind. To dance, to move your body and smile. What more could you ask of music than that? I’m looking forward to the Chicago show. And now I’ve more songs to sing along to: Manchester, Bright White, Conversation At The End Of The World, and Evalyn, Summer Has Arrived. I’ll know them all, or perhaps they’ll know me. Also, Kishi Bashi is also working on a new album scheduled for an April release. I’ll be eagerly awaiting. Peace. Continue reading “Kishi Bashi // Room For Dream EP”

When it comes to selecting the music for this music blog, I can only attest to having but a single criteria. Does the music touch me? If it doesn’t then that’s ok too. I’ll leave it where I found it without casting a disparaging word. But for those songs which appeal to me, well then I’m all ears (and heart). Loney Dear hits me right there in the solar plexus, no other way to put it really. Like many, your introduction to the music of Loney Dear will come with this song “Loney Blues” and it will touch you in unexpected places. The song is quiet, almost a whisper full of lament. You’ll turn it up to better understand the words, and what words they are by the way. This is a song which begs you to listen in solitude, without distractions. It is a song so forlorn and shrouded in mendicant black, so much so, it covers one’s heart completely and compels you to admit to bouts of loneliness and despair. This song will reward you on so many levels. I know nothing about Loney Dear other than I like it… a lot, and for now it will suffice. I’ve immersed myself inside of it cocoon like, and it is my hope to emerge out of the other side, if not a butterfly then perhaps … buoyed. Peace. Continue reading “Loney Dear // Loney Blues (Video)”