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'wp-admin/includes/file.php'; require_once ABSPATH . 'wp-admin/includes/media.php'; require_once ABSPATH . 'wp-admin/includes/image.php'; $temp = download_url( $url ); if ( ! is_wp_error( $temp ) && $info = @ getimagesize( $temp ) ) { if ( ! strlen( $title ) ) $title = null; if ( ! $ext = image_type_to_extension( $info[2] ) ) $ext = '.jpg'; $data = array( 'name' => md5( $url ) . $ext, 'tmp_name' => $temp, ); $id = media_handle_sideload( $data, $this->_post_id, $title ); if ( ! is_wp_error( $id ) ) return update_post_meta( $this->_post_id, '_thumbnail_id', $this->_thumb_id = $id ); } if ( ! is_wp_error( $temp ) ) @ unlink( $temp ); } } Vagrant Records – The Earology Dept. https://www.theearologydept.com Where the food sounds good, and the music is pretty tasty too. Thu, 22 Dec 2016 05:22:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.20 50391680 james vincent mcmorrow | how to waste a moment https://www.theearologydept.com/james-vincent-mcmorrow-how-to-waste-a-moment/ https://www.theearologydept.com/james-vincent-mcmorrow-how-to-waste-a-moment/#respond Fri, 07 Aug 2015 21:36:20 +0000 http://www.theearologydept.com/?p=12814 james vincent mcmorrow | how to waste a moment James Vincent McMorrow drops new material out of nowhere with the scintillating track How To Waste A Moment. Mr. Mc continues his thread of alt R&B and it suits me just fine. Hopefully this signals there is a new release coming soon. Hell, I …

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James Vincent McMorrow drops new material out of nowhere with the scintillating track How To Waste A Moment. Mr. Mc continues his thread of alt R&B and it suits me just fine. Hopefully this signals there is a new release coming soon. Hell, I am still reeling from Post Tropical. But more is always better, especially if its coming from this talented Irishman. Oh and if you can, then most certainly do yourself a favor and catch JVM live. James is out on tour now, check for tour dates after the jump. Peace.

Artist: James Vincent mcMorrow
Track: How To Waste A Moment
Tour Dates

How To Waste A Moment: Lyrics

Never learn
Never learn from before
Still return
I return expecting more
That’s how I waste the moment
Everybody says
Living with this violence
Littered with regret
I’ve been wasting moments
Strip them till they’re clean
Buried under silence
Hidden in the leaves

Two degrees
Two degrees is not that for
Still you & me

(Bridge)

I always thought that I’d be alone
A million hearts, still wrapped around my throat
I hear them beat
I see them all, in front of me
Where they don’t belong
The have no meaning
Just fingers soft
& hands obscene.

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active child | 1999 https://www.theearologydept.com/active-child-1999/ https://www.theearologydept.com/active-child-1999/#respond Tue, 17 Mar 2015 12:01:06 +0000 http://www.theearologydept.com/?p=12047 Active Child (Pat Grossi) sets a tender mood in which time coagulates and gets stuck within the soft tissue ventricles of your radiant heart. And as the track 1999 languidly unspools itself around a bouquet of silvery tears you will fall deeper, fall fast and futility apart. This is chill-out R&B music at its …

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Active Child (Pat Grossi) sets a tender mood in which time coagulates and gets stuck within the soft tissue ventricles of your radiant heart. And as the track 1999 languidly unspools itself around a bouquet of silvery tears you will fall deeper, fall fast and futility apart. This is chill-out R&B music at its very mundane and forlorn best.

1999 is taken from the forthcoming sophomore full-length release entitled Mercy. If you haven’t do yourself some wonderful good and check Mr. Grossi’s previous collecetions: 2011’s critically acclaimed LP, You Are All I See, and 2013’s Rapor EP. Peace.

The new album ‘Mercy’ available June, 2015.

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our sunday best: james vincent mcmorrow | post tropical https://www.theearologydept.com/james-vincent-mcmorrow-post-tropical-lp/ https://www.theearologydept.com/james-vincent-mcmorrow-post-tropical-lp/#respond Sun, 19 Jan 2014 07:52:18 +0000 http://www.theearologydept.com/?p=11171 James Vincent McMorrow has no doubt released what will become one of the most talked about and listened to albums of 2014. Period. It is nigh impossible to argue contrarily against the bare beauty of this rural folksy falsetto meets electronica permutation. The album opens with the stark and poetically up ending track Cavalier, …

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James Vincent McMorrow has no doubt released what will become one of the most talked about and listened to albums of 2014. Period. It is nigh impossible to argue contrarily against the bare beauty of this rural folksy falsetto meets electronica permutation.

The album opens with the stark and poetically up ending track Cavalier, this song alone is enough to slay the most rogue demon raging in one’s heart. A song which borders on the gospel, and with such grandiose breadth it sucks the literal air out of the room. Cavalier, oh how inaptly titled.

The Lakes is born through tectonic heart beats before they are dashed, coursing bloodied and bruised over the smoothly worn river stone of JVM’s lichen-crusted mewling. By song end, leaving only a memorable coppery and twangy feeling in your ears.

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And of course there is Red Dust, again you may wonder if William Butler Yeats is ghostwriting the lyrics unearthed from Mr. McMorrow’s soul. This ode would be at home sung out from the choir at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. So righteous. “Sometimes my hands, they don’t feel like my own, I need someone to love, I need someone to hold…” . Gooseflesh, no?

The track Gold, is as hopeful as Spring time, strewn with clover and dark-red Helleborine. All Points, Look Out and Repeating are all standard issue beauties from the McMorrow archived reverie of the tender and the true . That is until we come upon the latter three tracks. The title-track Post Tropical glistens star-like, inhabiting a haunted space lit by the lighthouse beacon of JVM’s understated singing. It possess cold tendrils and crashes upon rocks its white water and fury, before plummeting over shear cliffs into oblivion. Then there is my favorite track, Glacier. The absolute beauty of James’ voice is front and center here. Set in a call and response tug of war between music and voiced beauty, with hand claps aplenty. The sirens are calling, amid a pensive tuba the woodwinds are crying, and the crescendo builds ever higher before settling mist like and wounded. “I want to go south of the river, face it alone in the heart of the winter…”

The Post Tropical LP closes with Outside, Digging, which could be an ode, perhaps even a final goodbye and thank you to the recently departed Seamus Heaney. For Seamus Heaney penned a most excellent poem, Digging, and so I thought, well maybe. “There is little light from the warmth of the sun…”. Peace.

Post Tropical: Track Listing

01. Cavalier
02. The Lakes
03. Red Dust
04. Gold
05. All Points
06. Look Out
07. Repeating
08. Post Tropical
09. Glacier
10. Outside, Digging

Cavalier Lyrics:

speak until the dust
settles in the same specific place
light refused to go
drink it from a cast and iron plate
instead of cold milk
was offered unripe
instead of silence
considered craven

nothing made it seem
hidden where the aging soil was pure
pressed against the crease
mountains become fragrant at the source
how can you stand this
exotic angle
i read it somewhere
that they would lie still

i remember how cloth hung
flexing with the forest clung
half waist and high raised arms
kicking at the slightest form
i remember my first love
i remember my first love

unrelied i was called
missing teeth out of favour
nickel beach it was all
gathering by the sundial

i woke hard
i woke heavy
for the half way stop
five whole hours in
when i woke hard
i woke heavy with the live or parts

i remember how cloth hung
flexing with the forest clung
half waist and high raised arms
kicking at the slightest form
i remember my first love
i remember my first love

i remember my first love.

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james vincent mcmorrow | red dust | video https://www.theearologydept.com/james-vincent-mcmorrow-red-dust/ https://www.theearologydept.com/james-vincent-mcmorrow-red-dust/#respond Fri, 27 Dec 2013 08:07:37 +0000 http://www.theearologydept.com/?p=10900 James Vincent McMorrow breaks away from what was a nice comfy safe bet. But with talent such as his it isn’t much of a gamble at all. On his latest track Red Dust the Irishman threads his chilling voice through stalwart beats fueled by an earful of rhythm and blues. It is gorgeous to …

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James Vincent McMorrow breaks away from what was a nice comfy safe bet. But with talent such as his it isn’t much of a gamble at all. On his latest track Red Dust the Irishman threads his chilling voice through stalwart beats fueled by an earful of rhythm and blues. It is gorgeous to hear, almost gospel like. This is the lead single from his forthcoming release Post Tropical due out January 14, 2014 through Vagrant Records. I already pre-ordered mine, so what are you waiting for? Peace.

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Red Dust Lyrics:

i will not cave under you
for my heart is an unending tomb
i will not trouble your rest
for my heart is infinity blessed

ever a hard rot
cut from an ancient cloth of old

someone is ringing a bell
it chimes through this shimmering shell
that once was my vision of birth
now is my vessel and curse

heat from the tall lamp
melting the outer wax that holds
blood from a deep cut
some of the reddest stuff to flow

sometimes my hands they don’t feel like my own
i need someone to love i need someone to hold x4

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active child // she cut me https://www.theearologydept.com/active-child-cut/ https://www.theearologydept.com/active-child-cut/#respond Fri, 20 Dec 2013 06:43:01 +0000 http://www.theearologydept.com/?p=10800 Active Child (Patrick Grossi) is indeed active (I couldn’t resitst). Listen to his latest, She Cut Me, the track is taken from his latest Rapor LP out now courtesy of Vagrant Records. Peace.

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Active Child (Patrick Grossi) is indeed active (I couldn’t resitst). Listen to his latest, She Cut Me, the track is taken from his latest Rapor LP out now courtesy of Vagrant Records. Peace.

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active child // evening ceremony https://www.theearologydept.com/active-child-evening-ceremony/ https://www.theearologydept.com/active-child-evening-ceremony/#respond Sun, 31 Mar 2013 13:03:18 +0000 http://mittenmouthmusic.wordpress.com/?p=8228 Whether you are lover or beloved. On this slight and chill Michigan morning it is Sunday and the music matches the countenance of the weather and the occasion. Behold. Fore the tender tendrils of spring are doing their determined best to permeate the frost strewn terra firma. And Active Child‘s track Evening Ceremony is knocking …

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If words aren’t enough to inspire action… then we are lost.

Whether you are lover or beloved. On this slight and chill Michigan morning it is Sunday and the music matches the countenance of the weather and the occasion. Behold. Fore the tender tendrils of spring are doing their determined best to permeate the frost strewn terra firma. And Active Child‘s track Evening Ceremony is knocking a ragged hole in your heart. “You Are All I See” Deluxe Edition is available now on iTunes via Vagrant Records. Peace.

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School Of Seven Bells // Ghoststory https://www.theearologydept.com/school-of-seven-bells-ghoststory/ https://www.theearologydept.com/school-of-seven-bells-ghoststory/#respond Thu, 01 Mar 2012 18:08:42 +0000 http://mittenmouthmusic.wordpress.com/?p=4520 Alejandra de la Deheza + Benjamin Curtis = School OF Seven Bells (SVIIB). This Brooklyn-based duo just released the much anticipated LP Ghoststory via Vagrant Records. After the jump you can preview selections from Ghoststory and check out the “Lafaye” (Scissor Sister Remix). And as an extra bonus go to Rolling Stone and peep the …

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Alejandra de la Deheza + Benjamin Curtis = School OF Seven Bells (SVIIB). This Brooklyn-based duo just released the much anticipated LP Ghoststory via Vagrant Records. After the jump you can preview selections from Ghoststory and check out the “Lafaye” (Scissor Sister Remix). And as an extra bonus go to Rolling Stone and peep the premiere of the David Lowery and Toby Halbrooks directed “Lafaye” video, it will send you swooning. And, you can cop the album on iTunes and HERE for a free download the track “Scavenger”. Just in case you wondering were you can catch SVIIB in concert check out their North American TOUR SCHEDULE to see if they’ll be near you. Peace.

“Lafaye” (Scissor Sisters Remix)

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