new music
I'm gonna try and not recommend any old band on this blog and instead reserve this space for new music that I really dig.
I've been enjoying the mp3's of Windmill for a little while now, as I patiently waited for my eMusic subscription to roll around again. I spent much of yesterday and today listening to "Puddle City Racing Lights" and I dig it.
Windmill is actually solo artist Matthew Dillon. The sound is both piano driven and epic oriented. and the vocals are strongly reminiscent of the male vocals of the Magic Numbers. There is an epic feel thats comparable to Destroyer at his loudest, though with less ambiguous lyrics and more winking (Jens Lekman like). There are so many ideas on this album and I keep waiting for them to begin repeating but also like Lekman's "Oh You're So Silent Jens" and Destroyer's "Rubies" there are enough satisfying surprises to keep from getting shticky.*
My favorite songs so far are: Tokyo Moon, Bourding Lounges and Asthmatic.
Check it out.
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