It’s best to keep your expectations realistic. Sure, maybe Prince Charming is waiting just around the river bend … but the likelihood’s low. Which is why I say hats off to Saint Motel for keeping their expectations low in the title track from their 2014 EP My Type:
“You know you’re just my type/You’ve got a pulse and you are breathing.”
Add to that stellar lyric some woodwinds and hand claps and you know I’m hooked:
Sometimes leaving the past behind can be a difficult thing to do. For a variety of reasons, whether it’s nostalgia or regret, the idea of living in the past or dwelling on it can hold a certain appeal, but moving forward is inevitable and technically speaking, the fact that we experience time in a linear fashion means that whether we like it or not we’re leaving the past behind every second of every day. Science!
Pale Blue addresses this in “The Past We Leave Behind,” the title track of their upcoming debut album (out April 14 on Captured Tracks/2MR). The brainchild of Mike Simonetti, Pale Blue could also be referencing Simonetti literally leaving his past behind by splitting from Italians Do It Better, the label he cofounded, and working on his new project with vocalist Elizabeth Wight.
It’s a solid track, though I’ll refrain from describing it too much since the group’s press release states that “Pale Blue’s philosophy is to keep everything open to collaboration. It does not aim to pigeonhole itself into a genre or any new vistas in music, but instead to a unifying sound produced collectively and harmoniously.” So with that in mind, give it a listen.
Apparently the theme of my new year song-of-the-day posts is good advice. Shamir: Be comfortable in your own skin. Dan Croll: Take your shoes off when you enter someone’s home. And now Bronze Radio Return: live it up ’cause you’ll be a goner at some point.
Revolving around a chorus of: “I’m gonna live (I’m gonna live)/‘til I die (‘til I die)/Until the blurry-eyed worry’s gone by” this feel good indie folk track is anchored with handclaps, piano and laced with some delicately delightful harmonica work in the background.
Give it a listen:
Some things are universal. You may be an introvert, you may be an extrovert. You may live in the country, or the city. You may live in a mansion or a studio, by yourself or on a commune with your 25 “brothers and sisters” but there’s one thing that rings true for pretty much everyone: it feels damn good to come home and take your shoes off.
So give Dan Croll’s “Home” a listen, and just remember if you’re ever invited over to his house to take your shoes off at the door – because it’s impolite not to, and you’ll be damaging his floor.
