Song of the Day: "Around U" by MUNA

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I just looked it up and discovered that the band MUNA is an American dark pop/electric pop.  Which doesn't explain the sort of Swedish/Cocteau Twins feel to the vocals, as if the lead singer hails from an imaginary Nordic country.

I found my song of the day,  MUNA's "Around U," while browsing on letsloop for music similar to Pale Waves. The latter group is a band that I love based on the two songs I've heard. I said my knowledge of music was broad, I never said it was deep. But with so much good music around, all you can do is try to keep up.

Now this probably revelatory of my troubled psyche but I was hearing one of the recurring lines as "I'm no longer evil around you," which I thought was kinda cool. Combating recidivism through love. However, it's more of a classic breakup sentiment: "I no longer revolve around you." Burn!


—Sarah Torribio

Song of the Day: "Nothing's Gonna Hurt You, Baby"

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The atmosphere in this song is as thick as pea soup! My song of the day is "Nothing's Gonna Hurt You Baby" by Cigarettes After Sex. 

I'm told by the group's website that it's an ambient pop group based out of Brooklyn, NY and formed in 2008. That's great. I only have a decade's worth of their music to catch up on!

Song of the Day: "Jumping Someone Else's Train" by The Cure

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I've been having a music session with my son Alex, 9, forcing him to listen to music from my high school years. So he runs out of the room just as I cue up "Jumping Someone Else's Train" by The Cure. 

And I'm like, "Don't go! I'm trying to get nostalgic."

#ClassOf92

That cool quote by Flannery O'Connor. . .

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Random Musing: The grandma in me. . .

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Chilliaxing gif of the day: "Raindrops keep falling. . ."

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Song of the Day: "Sway" by the Kooks

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"Sway" by the Kooks is a compelling and sexy slice of pop rock.

The band, I'm told, was formed in 2004 in Brighton. That would explain the accent, which I'm digging. It's like the Arctic Monkeys. Which came first, the cockney accent or the excellence? And does it even matter?

—Sarah Torribio

Song of the Day: "Furious" by Jade Bird

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This song "Furious" by Jade Bird is raw and lonesome and very old-school country. Think Sissy Spacek singing Appalachian folk songs at the start of "Coal Miner's Daughter." It oozes heartbreak but the slow-smoked kind, the kind you learn to live with after a while.

Singer Jade Elizabeth bird is actually English, despite the title of her debut EP which came out in 2017: "Something American." I'm going to add her to my long musical list of "people to look into."

—Sarah Torribio

Song of the Day: 'Bad Guy" by Hatchie

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"Bad Guy" by dream pop/electropop performer Hatchie is just a pretty song.

Hatchie, according to a Pitchfork article I skimmed, is the stage name of  Hariette Pilbeam, who hails from Brisbane, Australia.

—Sarah Torribio

Song of the Day: "Fog," by The Ophelias

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I'm really enjoying my second sonic introduction to The Ophelias, the song "Fog." According to the band's bandcamp page, the quartet is from Cincinnati, Ohio. So cool to see all the places indie rock emerges.

—Sarah Torribio

Song of the Day: "Don't Leave It In Our Hands" by The Essex Green

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"Don't Leave It In Our Hands" by The Essex Green is good snappy indie rock music with a nice baseline and catchy vocals only touched by ennui.

This trio, who look endlessly cool, have a brand-new album called Hardly Electronic. A quick spin through the world-wide web tells me that the group is an indie rock band from Brooklyn and that they released their first album in 1999.

—Sarah Torribio

Song of the Day: "Not Sorry" by Off Bloom

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I'm enjoying a song called 'Not Sorry" by Off Bloom.

One of my pals on Letsloop looped this and I'm digging on it. I'm told by the internet that Off Bloom is an Ango-Danish group of three producers that formed in 2015. I'm interested to hear more of what they have to offer.


—Sarah Torribio

Song of the Day: "Lost My Mind" by Lily Allen

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Oh, Lily, you taffy-sweet, cool AF girl. You always grab me, despite myself. This is some wistful pop that sounds like it was produced by Phil Specter using music boxes from Gepetto's studio.

My song of the day is "Lost My Mind" by Lily Allen. 


—Sarah Torribio

Song of the Day: "General Electric" by the Ophelias

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I just came across a new song while browsing through the music sharing and suggestion site Letsloop. It's called "General Electric" and it's by an outfit called The Ophelias.

If you're a fan of Best Coast, Angel Olsen, Liz Phair, That Dog, etc. you'll dig this big time.

—Sarah Torribio

Song of the Day "Corduroy" by Pearl Jam

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Listening to "Corduroy" by Pearl Jam provides a direct time machine to my early adulthood. 

Beyond the sonic resonance, I now see there are some brilliant lines: "Everything has chains/absolutely nothing's changed/ Take my hand not my picture/ spill my tincture . . ."

—Sarah Torribio

Epigram of the Day: "My own worst critic"

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