#acoustic pop

[a-reason-for-this]

Hi.

Tomorrow.

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[positivevibedad]

A song for you. ❤️

Oh well get through this even if I die

There’s really nothing to it

You’re the love of my life

I don’t know what the future holds, but

I’m in it for life

All I want is to grow gray and old, and uh

Die by your side

There ain’t nobody like you

There ain’t body like you

[davidwilliammusic]

A live acoustic performance of "The Last To Leave", which was released on my album 'The Days Before'. A full studio version of this song is still to come.

[seedlingnook]

This song is about gender dysphoria…maybe you should check it out 👀

Art by @bugpinned

[personnamedrose]

In the past 72 hours I went from not knowing what Talkshow Boy sounded like to having nearly 200 Talkshow Boy scrobbles on last.fm! Here's a cover of one of their songs that I like a lot from the album Watch As I Perform My Own Tracheotomy, it's mostly just B G#m E F# but the breath control needed is kind of insane so sorry if the jumps between takes are obvious.

[musicandrootbeer]

you are mine, I’m not yours

[dustedmagazine]

Nathaniel Russell — Songs of (Psychic Hotline)

Nathaniel Russell sings with a warbly sincerity, his melodies wandering sleepily through hedges of scraped guitar and soft, murmured background vocals. A sax blows through from time to time, a bass plunks subliminally, bells, woodblocks and tuned drums tap out tonal cadences. A refrain catches Russell’s imagination and he repeats it, quietly, insistently, until the words transform from their literal meaning into sonic blocks of color.

Russell is a printmaker and musician based in Indianapolis whose home-spun transcendentalism links him to out-there folk artists like Michael Hurley and K Records minimalists including Karl Blau and Beat Happening. This is his second album as a solo artist, and while not exactly polished, it has the air of being exactly what it was intended to be.

Consider, for instance, the beautiful, completely unassuming “Let’s Stop, Listen,” made of the simplest, roughest ingredients: a scrape of guitar, a smattering of bells and the talismanic repetition “Stop, let’s listen to them sing.” Russell croons this by himself for a bit, then picks up extra sustenance from female voice (not credited by likely producer Amelia Meath). Now a saxophone (that’s Matt Douglas) stirs up the air, breathy and sinuous. A glockenspiel or something similar plinks and plunks in the background. The song is simple in the way a shaker chair is simple: 100% of what it needs is there, along with 0% of what it doesn’t.

Or take the equally charming “Wonderful to Be in Love,” which describes, in detail, the act of lying in tall grass watching the sun hit it. The mood is indolent and utterly content, and you might find yourself suppressing a yawn as Russell sings about sunshine and vegetation and romantic bliss. But it also links to something nearly mystical, this song, some life force that runs through nature and the world and even us, if we only slow down enough to feel it.  

These songs feel like parables, earthy enough on a literal level, but vibrating with hidden spiritual matter. “Wish I Was Born an Animal” toys with reincarnation and pantheism and love in the multi-verse, in short, vivid spates of verse. “Wish I was born an animal, you were born a bird,” he poses, “Fly higher than the trees, swimming with the fishes, fly higher than my long lost friends ever did go.” And finally, near the end, “I found a picture in the pocket of a coat I hadn’t worn in a year, it felt good just to listen, just to look, just to be alive, just to be on the breathing, reeling of the world.”  

Songs of is a very slow burner, an album that sounds like nothing the first time you put it on, but gradually takes on weight and meaning and resonance as you repeat.  Give it a little time, and it will bloom.

Jennifer Kelly

[wub-fur-radio]

The Lion Under the Lemons

March plays against type and goes out like a lion in this lively, tuneful, and eclectic early spring mix of contemporary indie folk/rock/jangle/pop/etc. Featuring a score of fine tunes from Hollow Hand, Calexico, Robert Forster, Tony Molina, the Woolen Men, Edwyn Collins, Cat Power, and a baker’s dozen more artists who know it’s better to be a lion for a day than a lemon for your whole life.

▶︎🎶 Play on  Mixcloud –or– Apple Music (or scroll down to use an embedded player below)

Running Time: 1 hour, 2 seconds

Tracklist

Hurdy Short (1:16) — TJO | California | 2021

All My Love (3:55) — Hollow Hand | Brighton, UK | 2023

Star Vehicle (3:26) — Pale Blue Eyes | Totnes, UK | 2022

Song For Friends (Slight Return) (1:03) — Tony Molina | San Francisco, CA | 2022

Turquoise (2:49) — Calexico | Tucson, AZ | 2022

There’s a Reason to Live (2:31) — Robert Forster | Australia | 2023

Love Is the Frequency (Acoustic Version) (2:49) — Andy Bell | London, UK | 2023

Unspoken Promise * (2:59) — Plankton Wat | Portland, OR | 2023 * Apple Music version subsitutes “A Window in the Mirror” (3:03) also by Plankton Wat | 2022

Little Sign (2:51) — Edith Frost | Austin, TX | 2020

I Guess We Were Young (3:22) — Edwyn Collins | Helmsdale, UK | 2019

Emmanuel Head (3:31) — Hector Gannet | North Shields, UK | 2023

A Rumor (0:24) — Whitney’s Playland | San Francisco, CA | 2023

Forgotten 45 (3:45) — Woolen Men | Portland, OR | 2023

Waiting on a Ghost to Haunt You (2:46) — The Reds, Pinks and Purples | San Francisco, CA | 2023

Old Perfume for a New Day (3:29) — Tommy and The Ohs | Nashville, TN | 2022

Rising Moons (2:20) — Immaterial Possession | Athens, GA | 2023

Useless Feeling (3:49) — Spice World | WA, Australia | 2023

Good (4:31) — Ghost Woman | Arizona | 2022

When I Think of You (3:13) — Noa Mal | Philippines | 2023

Here Comes a Regular (5:13) — Cat Power | Miami, FL | 2022

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[sylias68]

Nice acoustic cover of one of my favourite song by Knuckle Puck.

[joanofarc]

counting shit, nedelle and thom (2004).

and forever lazing out making eyes at you i'm wondering if she's counting, too

[jeffcbliss]

Jack Johnson - BeachLife Ranch music festival; Redondo Beach, CA (9-22-23). @jackjohnson

Photo: Jeff Bliss

[vlasman123]

(Vlasis Metaxas)

[positivevibedad]

Life flies by. An acoustic original.

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Oh, we don’t have that much time to live

But oh, we sure do have a lot of love to give

[theartofmany]

This "old" album is still so good until these days From Youtube channel Johnson Thailand: Jack Johnson On And On FuLL Enjoy this musical and very chill masterpiece...

[browneproject]

Darkness Into Twilight By Chris Browne BrowneProject (Official Video)

[thetaizuru]

(Mazare)