urgency to bleed

I honestly don't mean to keep abandoning this place. It just happens. But in an effort to keep things more active, I'm going to try really hard to post one song every day from the albums I've liked the most this year, since I haven't had a chance to talk about any new releases yet. Hopefully, I will be able to keep this promise, as it seems a pretty simple one to fulfill, seems being the operative word there - I'm still the biggest procrastinator on the planet. Anyway, that will start tomorrow. For now, have a concert review that, yes, I shamelessly copied and pasted from my personal blog. Whatever. It fits more here.


( There's kids playing guns in the street and one's pointing his tree branch at me and so I put my hands up, I say enough is enough, if you walk away, I'll walk away, and he shot me dead. )

Also, before I go, there's a new Carissa's Wierd song, guys! Their first in over seven years! I guess they're planning on releasing a 7" and doing a few reunion shows but I'm not sure if their plans yet extend beyond that. Hopefully, they do because this song is beautiful and sounds just as good as their best stuff. You can hear it over on Soundcloud.

The only comments I've been getting lately are anonymous spammers so I had to disable anonymous commenting. I do get some really nice anonymous comments once in awhile but... if you want to post anything you'll have to register for Livejournal. Sorry.

( Well, darling, I can't go but you may stay here with me. )

Alright, so, about that 2010 list of mine. I've only got about half the reviews written at this point and at the moment all of my creative energy is being harnessed by other things so I'm not sure when I will have the rest ready. I know I could just copy and paste my first reviews, since I've already posted about most of them before, but even though it is illogical to write the same things in different words all over again, I can't help it. So you'll have to wait for that awhile longer. But here is something to hold you over until then. I've also mentioned a lot of these albums before but some of them are here for the first time so it's not entirely a waste of a post. Also, I can't really call this entire list honorable mentions because, well, some of the albums I don't like much as a whole but they happen to have a couple really amazing songs. So it's just a list of... everything I felt I needed to mention that isn't in the top twenty for whatever reason.

( I'm begging with my fingers and it's starting to burn. )

So... um, I haven't posted in a couple of months, have I? Sorry about that. It's not that there's been a lack of music to inspire me, it's just that I'm lazy and... yeah, mostly lazy but I've also been burned out on writing in general for awhile now. All kinds of writing apparently: music reviews, fiction, fucking around with no purpose but to entertain myself. Yep, it's all been pretty difficult to accomplish lately. But here I am, trying to amend that! By briefly convincing you to check out some albums from this year that I haven't gotten around to mentioning yet! There are quite a few because, as we have established, I am a lazy fuck so this will be split up into a couple entries. It's basically a mix of albums I adore, albums I really like and albums that aren't so great but have a few really good songs and, hey, sometimes it's fun to say bad things instead of good all the time, isn't it? So, yeah, have fun, discover new music, be merry. I will try to be more prompt regarding the next installment.

( Arcade Fire - The Suburbs )

( Azure Ray - Drawing Down the Moon )

( First Aid Kit - The Big Black and the Blue )

( Jenny and Johnny - I'm Having Fun Now )

( Lydia - Assailants )

( The Narrative - The Narrative )

( Ra Ra Riot - The Orchard )

And, truly, saving the best for last, even though this is more a review of two songs instead of an entire album because regarding these specific releases, that seems far too daunting a task to even comprehend for at least several months...

( Sufjan Stevens - All Delighted People/The Age of Adz )