Deleted Scenes was a band but they called it quits just about a year ago and I miss them.
If you ever drank from the cups of sorrow and woe well into the night then these are the songs that’ll keep you sane. These are songs fit for raging and swinging your fists into the guilty seconds, minutes and hours. But these are also the songs that’ll becalm your white water pulse and allow you, to if not see reason, then to at least see your way through the night. I say check ’em out and get some Deleted Scenes into your life loving ears. You’ll be better off for it. Peace. Continue reading “deleted scenes | throwback thursday”
the lowest pair | living is dying
The Lowest Pair is Kendl Winter (Olympia, Washington) and Palmer T. Lee (Minnesota) and they’re a double banjo outfit fit to tie you up in dainty pickin’ and honey sweet lyrics laden with sunshine and the scent of wildflowers on the breeze.
Their debut release 36¢ is a thing of esteemed beauty, on it this charming duo swap lead vocals throughout the album’s 11-tracks, combining Kendl’s finely honed banjo skills with Palmer’s Midwestern smooth as good whiskey croon. The album is out now and will make an excellent accompaniment to whatever else you got going on. Promise. Peace. Continue reading “the lowest pair | living is dying”
la luz // brainwash = official song of the week
Seattle, Washington punkish rock girlsome La Luz make a mean song. On their latest, the Brainwash 7-incher release via Suicide Squeeze Records. These women come out swingin’, brandishing their respective instruments like weapons of mass seduction! The band has a juicy retro-rock style which goes well with speakers and toe-tappin’ or fisticuffs and an overindulgence of brewskies. You pick.
I like ’em so much I’m making them my official song of week! Yeah, that effing good! You can pre-order the EP right HERE. Peace. Continue reading “la luz // brainwash = official song of the week”
deleted scenes // young people’s church of the air (our sunday best)
There are bands out here in the world which serve as more therapy than mere entertainment. And although D.C.’s Deleted Scenes can serve as both it is the former that is perhaps most useful. When I listen to the music on their sophomore release Young People’s Church of the Air I immediately think of three bands, Radiohead, Vampire Weekend and OK Go. Hopefully this isn’t a rush to judgement, but I hear lyrical phrasing and musical styles reminiscent of the aforementioned trio. But musical comparisons aside I hear originality too. In the way Daniel Scheuerman gets inside a song (and your head) and paints the walls with darkly ghostly sound that manages to ring of hopefulness, and much fragility as well. The album opens with the spacey panoramic tome “A Litany for Mrs. T” and it envelops the listener in an almost gospel wave of euphoria. But there are so many great tracks, Bedbedbedbedbed, the tropical “Nassau” or my favorite, “English As A Second Language”. All these songs, make this Our Sunday Best pick. Peace. Continue reading “deleted scenes // young people’s church of the air (our sunday best)”