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4th 06 - 2010 | no comment »

The Summer Albums, Pt.2

I had been a fairweather fan of Camera Obscura going on a few years now, specifically of their song “Happy New Year,” and the beautifully simple album from which that song comes.

But I’ve been riding around this summer listening to My Maudlin Career and let me just say, it is perfect for classic summer activities such as, say, making your way through unfamiliar neighborhoods on the way to see a friend of a friend’s band play at a coffee shop on a warm, Georgia night.

Long story short, get this album to soundtrack your summer adventures.

Man, nobody does a love song like these guys, but give them strings and a horn section and look out!

One of the best tracks is the opener, “French Navy”:

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6th 04 - 2010 | no comment »

The Summer Albums, Pt. One

As it is apparently full-blown Summer already here in Atlanta, 90 degrees in April, I thought I would detail a few perfect soundtracks to the sunshine.  The albums listed in this series are tops for windows-down driving or relaxing in your retro glider patio furniture with cocktails and fairweather friends.

The songs on Beulah’s The Coast Is Never Clear make an excellent competition for the bees and crickets and fireflies.  And I mean every song.  This record could (and will) feature on an upcoming series of “Top to Bottom” albums, where every single song is great, first to last.

Of course The Coast is rife with summertime imagery and the feel is just absolutely spot-on for the season.

Here’s one of my favorite tracks from The Coast, as featured in the lovely swansong doc about the band entitled A Good Band Is Easy To Kill:

And don’t forget, former Beulah frontman Miles Kurosky has a new solo album The Desert of Shallow Effects out this month.

Finally, a big thanks to MJ for turning me on to an album that was good enough to play it so much I got sick of it, then rediscover every time the sun comes out.

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