ROCKING CHAIR HUES
Episode 131. mp3. Released October 21, 2012.
It’s autumn. Falling leaves brush guitar strings as some hippy sings about his bursting heart. twank twank twank. OH GAWD I CAN HAS EMOTIONS. Good for you!(?). It starts to rain and the wind turns cold. Cloud grey, dying leaf yellow, deadleaf rot brown. Misery, hope and ennui. Together in this slow dance of tired metaphors (<-- laaaame). AKA. Autumn birthed folk music and that mmm deep feeling of suspended nostalgia and disembodied sadness.
- Sharon Van Etten / Don’t Do It / Epic (2010)
- Soap&Skin / Thanatos / Lovetune For Vacuum (2009)
- DM Stith / Thanksgiving Moon / Heavy Ghost (2009)
- Fleet Foxes / Tiger Mountain Peasant Song / Ragged Wood (2008)
- Calexico / Para / Algiers (2012)
- David Sylvian / The Boy with the Gun / Secrets of the Beehive (1987)
- Bat for Lashes / Laura / The Haunted Man (2012)
- Scott Walker / Plastic Palace People / Scott 2 (1968)
- Vic Chesnutt / Flirted With You All My Life / At the Cut (2011)
- Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds / Sad Waters / Your Funeral… My Trial (1986)
- Laura Marling / Devil’s Spoke / I Speak Because I Can (2010)
- Tindersticks / This Fire of Autumn / the something rain (2012)
- Talk Talk / Ascension Day / Laughing Stock (1991)
- Bark Psychosis / Absent Friend / Hex (1994)
- Bill Callahan / Jim Cain / Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle (2009)
- Nick Drake / Fly / Bryter Later (1970)
- Gillian Welch / Everything Is Free / Time (The Revelator) (2001)
- Neil Young / Ambulance Blues / On The Beach (1974)