Music lately
I got an MP3 player recently, but it's not an iPod, so it doesn't play .m4a format files. This means that I now listen to music on a much more regular basis, but that the range of music I listen to has been severely, if arbitrarily, constrained. Here's what I've got going on lately:
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- Bon Iver's album. You know the one.
- Zuluboy, this awesome South African rapper whose CD I bought in Cape Town after hearing a few tracks playing in the music store.
- Ratatat's Classics
- Of Montreal, courtesy of Whitney Wood, whose music tastes grow on me in an enrichingly hit-or-miss way
- Randomly, because it was on my computer in .mp3 format, a mix that vaguelyweird once put a link to on her journal titled "in the spring comes a mender of things"
- Lil Wayne's "Mrs. Officer" and M.I.A.'s "Paper Planes" because Alpha Male and Zach's little brother and I listened to the rap station more or less non-stop when we were in Columbus and the songs grew on me. Also, some more M.I.A.
- Tim Fite's Over the Counter Culture, which is freely downloadable here. It's shockingly good for something free. My favorite tracks are "I've Been Shot" and the instrumental "I'm Not Scared Of You." The titular song is also pretty good.
- Girltalk.
- "IBM 1401, A User's Manual," by Johann Johannson. An the Amazon page describes it better than I can. An offering from JA.
- The Ting Ting's "We Started Nothing." Heard this in the too-hip-for-words coffee shop. You probably have heard "That's Not My Name," which has apparently been playing in mainstream channels. And "The Great DJ" inexplicably made it into the TV ads for Slumdog Millionaire despite not actually being in the movie. I'm kind of sickened by how the group has blatantly used their DIY history/aesthetic for branding purposes. It's sort of the whole hipster authenticity/recuperation/whatever crisis in a nutshell. However, the music is too fun to ignore.
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