...aaaaand we're back!

ok, ok, you can stop holding your breath.

it sure has been a while, but here we are!  as you can see, the changes to the site are certainly not worthy of the extended delay y'all have been experiencing, but that's just how it ended up.

let's talk changes.

first of all, updates are going to be a bit more spaced out.  while i'd love to keep recommending a song each day, i get too obsessive with my listening, and new stuff takes a while to work in.  the songs i'm including in this post have been on heavy rotation, with multiple listenings per day.  for now, i'm hoping to include three to four songs each week.  the tracks might be spaced out through the week, or, in tonight's case, they may just be in one post.

secondly, i'm switching over to an embedded spotify music player instead of youtube.  i've talked about spotify lots and lots, but, if you don't remember, it's rad.  download it, log in with your facebook account, and listen.  i don't think you need an account to listen to anything via the embedded player i'm using, but let me know if it's not working for you.  (yes, you, the four readers that might see this.)

i'm also going to include some different content now and then.  i'll probably throw in a video game post, some "day in the life" type of things (you'll see), and maybe even some style/fashion stuff.

and, it looks a little different.  you like?

all right, that's enough of that.  let's get to the music, shall we?

first up is "beacon" by disasterpeace.  this track comes from the soundtrack of one of the craziest video games i've ever played, "fez."  on the surface, "fez" is an indie platformer with a sublime art style with rad music, but it quickly turns into an unbelievably challenging puzzle game.  seriously, this game is nuts.  it took the entire internet over a week to solve the game's final puzzle.  can you imagine that?  a puzzle stumping the internet for an entire week?  that's like a decade in real time.  to top it off, the final puzzle was only beaten by "brute force," as players on the internet made a website with the over ten thousand possible answer combinations and started trying combination after combination.  someone eventually the correct sequence, but no one knows why it solved the puzzle.  still.

anyways, keeping with the retro pixelated art style of "fez," disasterpeace composed an 8 bit soundtrack that further draws you into the game.  "beacon" is probably my favorite track.  that lick at 1:38?  so joyful, so nostalgic, so beautiful.  and then it goes up the octave in the next statement!  perfect.

the opening area of fez.  so cool!

another song that has been getting a ton of play time in my car lately is "i've got this friend" by the civil wars.  before all of this recent downtime, i recommended a few of their tracks, and i've been listening to their album "barton hollow" more and more.  "i've got this friend" is absolutely infectious!  i challenge you to listen to it without cracking a smile.  it's sincere, flirtacious, playful, and supremely cute.  love this one!

the last song of the week is a big surpirse...

...wait for it...

"the weight of lies" by the avett brothers!

for my money, there aren't more sincere lyricists than these guys.  i mean, come on.

"the weight of lies will bring you down/and follow you to every town/'cause nothing happens here that doesn't happen there"

if there's a book that i want sitting next to my Bible, it's a full score of the avett brothers' discography.  i learn something new from every song.  these are some very wise souls.  if you have the opportunity, i suggest listening to this one at dusk, in your car, with the windows down.  i think i've said this before, but it seriously feels like praying to me.  amazing stuff.

well, i think that about wraps it up for this post.  check out the music and leave a thought!

-jglmnk