The Magnetic Fields - "The Charm of the Highway Strip"
I've decided that any time I hear an album that I really think is the shit I'm just gonna write about it in here. I don't care if anybody pays any attention :P For a while I was considering just converting this whole thing into nothing but music reviews but then my friends all started flocking back to LiveJournal and I started updating for real real.
I had only heard a little about The Magnetic Fields before I picked up this little gem at the Nelsonville Public Library (which has a surprisingly decent selection of music). All I knew about them is that they were an indie pop/rock group that had been around since the 90's and that most people agreed that they were pretty awesome. So I took a listen and I was pretty pleased. The lyrics are all very country-sounding; if you were to just read the lyrics to any given song on this album you'd probably think it was a country album. But the music sounds kinda like The Flaming Lips and the singer sounds a lot like the guy from Cake (actually, the singer sounds A LOT like this guy Chad I work with). Anyway, really bitchin' genius stuff. Check it out.
Highlights: "Lonely Highway", "Crowd of Drifters", and "Fear of Trains" (my favorite)
I had only heard a little about The Magnetic Fields before I picked up this little gem at the Nelsonville Public Library (which has a surprisingly decent selection of music). All I knew about them is that they were an indie pop/rock group that had been around since the 90's and that most people agreed that they were pretty awesome. So I took a listen and I was pretty pleased. The lyrics are all very country-sounding; if you were to just read the lyrics to any given song on this album you'd probably think it was a country album. But the music sounds kinda like The Flaming Lips and the singer sounds a lot like the guy from Cake (actually, the singer sounds A LOT like this guy Chad I work with). Anyway, really bitchin' genius stuff. Check it out.
Highlights: "Lonely Highway", "Crowd of Drifters", and "Fear of Trains" (my favorite)