it’s one of my all-time favorite Cocteau Twin songs. a bit more obscure, on the b-side of the Aikea-Guinea ep. i got this ep on vinyl at some point during my lonely years and Quisquose felt like the perfect, most precious accompaniment. i love the plodding piano. banging slight dissonances. Liz’s cacophonous howls. it doesn’t …
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one caress
i’ve been obsessing over this one lately, some 26 years after the fact. i’ve always loved it – it belongs to an echelon of elite martin-vocal songs – but i never gave it its proper space because of the earlier ones. the earlier songs – martin’s lead vocal songs and DM as a whole – …
come to me
The last 2 minutes + 30 seconds of “Follow Me” by Sweet Trip can count on its own as one of my favorite songs ever. It combines all the musical elements I love: dreamy guitars, reverb, dreamy male/female vocals, electronics, and a pounding dance beat. Seconds resolving to thirds, sevenths resolving to the root – …
favorites
what are the songs that stay with me? i have a few old faithfuls that i return to time and again. that may always be there, waiting to provide me with comfort. romulus & venusthe sundays’ first albumplainsong plainsong is a vast soundscape, it beckons tears at the first beat. glistening keys plodding along as …