Standing on our tiptoes

Fasting for Yom Kippur so I had to stay in tonight and not party-how I compensated, (500) Days of Summer and listening to music in my room. Fun discovery, Scottish band We Were Promised Jetpacks, brought to me by Gena from my hall.

The song begins with a rolling repetitive guitar lick that drives the melody. I'm a little more partial than most to accents in music-cue Noah and the Whale. The song doesn't really promise anything too great-nothing novel that seems to take you out of the realm of what you have or haven't heard before, but it is really great chill song and you have to take it at that face value. Best verse on record- "Waiting for my brain to start/trying to work things out/it's thunder and it's lightning/And it's all things too frightening," in lead singer Adam Thompsons Alt-Rock whine. Enjoy the track-definitely a good find.

"It's Thunder And It's Lightning" by We Were Promised Jetpacks from These Four Walls (2009)

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Sunday Sountrack

The first Sunday Soundtrack of the school year, I'll do my best...

"I Think I Love You" by The Guggenheim Grotto

"Mardy Bum" by The Arctic Monkeys

"Two States" by Pavement

"Daydream" by The Lovin Spoonful

"Jumper" by Third Eye Blind

"I'm Only Sleeping" by The Beatles

"Shape Of My Heart" by Noah And The Whale

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There'll be love love love wherever you go

This is one of my all time favorite songs. I heard about this band (Noah And The Whale) around the same time as I heard about the Irish band The Guggenheim Grotto. At the time I was in to these little kind of cute-sy indie bands. They both kind of fill the area of indie-folk (a genre occupied by some of my favorite bands).

Anyways, the song is called "Five Years Time" and its just one of those little duets with the whistling hook, not unlike "Home." The vocals really hit hard on this track and the ukulele is more or less the key to how well this track meshes. The lyrics are especially brilliant but it isn't really about that on this song, its more just kind of the experience and the feel of the track as a whole. It is more of an feeling than the though. I can't really articulate why I'm just so in love with this song but it's really beautiful (and I know I say that a lot but I feel it applies nicely here). By the way, on their wiki page, it describes them as not unlike Belle & Sebastian as well as Neutral Milk Hotel, truer words have never been spoken.

"Five Years Time" by Noah And The Whale (2007)-Single

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