Songs of The Week

[ad]Death Cab For Cutie’s Chris Walla, lets his melodic voice provides the perfect accompaniment to rhythmic guitars and drums in this in “Sing Again” As a long time Death Cab fan I am excited about hearing the rest of Chris’s debut solo Album, Field Manual, in the near future. Hear Sing Again on NPR’s Song of the day for 4-14-08.

“KEXP, April 15, 2008 – Back in January, The Helio Sequence released what will surely be one of 2008′s best albums… ” Having hear the whole album even though I am not familiar with Helio Sequence, I would have to agree with that sentiment. It was a great album and has been added to my iPod. “Keep Your Eyes Ahead” is about maintaining focus, which sometimes require you to step back and examine everything for a few days which is what has left me putting out the song of the week post for a few days. I needed a weekend off, even if the weekend didn’t start until Sunday. Keep Your Eyes Ahead was the NPR Song of the day on 4-15-08.

Mistakes by Devistation takes me back to the late punk era just as it was starting to become more refined. But fear not the bass line has a Peter Gun feel if it was played by Derek Smalls. However the feel of the song is not small at all. just as you get into the rhythm of the bass a screeching guitar sounds pulling you back from hypnosis and focuses you again on the lyrics. Mistakes was the NPR Song of The Day on 4-16-08.

Marcia Ball drops the rock that crushes the indie rock movement that had dominated the week thus far with a fiery piano heavy jazz number in “Right Back in It“. Marc Silver says this of the song, “Ball’s awesome mélange of keyboard styles sets the tone: Call it the Zydeco
boogie-woogie blues. Horns chug faster and faster throughout, and a
guitar drops by for a rock ‘n’ roll interlude.” If “keep Your Eyes Ahead” was about focus “Right Back in It” is how I feel now that I have had a couple of days off. This is truly one of the most impressive songs that has been inspired by Hurricane Katrina and for once isn’t some sad or sappy song. This has the feel of everything I remember about my time in the Big Easy. Just thinking about the New Orleans connection makes me hungry and the album title Peace, Love, & BBQ leaves me wanting for lunch and some more music from Marcia Ball. “Right back in It” was the NPR Song of the Day on 4-17-08.

Emery Byrd a band I am not familiar with at first reminds me a little of the Goo Goo Dolls. “A Great Silence,” was what i was glad for when I first heard the song . I got to listen to the lyrics and separated them from the music and really got to appreciate them on the first listen. Caroline Evans says “…Emery Byrd’s first full-length album — “Good Mrs. Young” sounds like a lost Kinks song…” I am not sure I would go that far, but the few songs I have heard so far have been really good. You can enjoy “A Great Silence” on the NPR Song of the Day site for 4-18-08.