dannybrito:

Wren F/W ‘12 Film “Beware of Young Girls” Starring Tavi Gevinson

(Source: youtube.com, via unicornology)

“I have not carefully examined the lyrics, but I’m pretty sure it’s about a boner.”
– This is my experience with most music! (context of quote is Tavi talking about ELO’s Strange Magic)
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Starring Role by Marina & The Diamonds

Choice lyrics from this tough broad:  

  • You don’t love me, big fucking deal
  • I send my best, regards from hell
  • I never sent for love, I never had a heart to mend, because before the start began, I always saw the end 

 ♡

Previously: Ava. Velvet Elvis. Asthma Attack.

(via harrisonlucas)

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Ava by Coeur de Pirate

Okay, so I started trying to learn French a couple months ago, and I’m only really halfway through one unit on Rosetta Stone, so I know colours and how to count to twelve (barely) but the other day I thought I’d rewatch that adorable Capucine video from some years back and it all sounded like gibberish to me still and gave me a headache. This has nothing to do with this song, which is great and is kind of upbeat but also really sad and a bit dark?? Take a look at the lyrics translation: Oh, Ava, you read those words over and over again / From three-sentence-long letters which tear your age off you / You know he’s a coward / But Ava, he just thinks you’re a fool When he kisses you, you feel like living again / But he’s really just renting his bed. AMAZING. 

The third in an indeterminate series of prime sassy musical ladies I’ve been listening to lately.

Velvet Elvis by Alex Winston

Here’s another prime sassy lady. I have no real idea what this song is about but it is just so dang catchy. But When I feel your velvet, I can’t help it/Hold your frame, whisper your name is a string of euphemisms, right? That’s how I’m reading it. I loved Alex Winston when I first heard her song Sister Wife, which is a great song if you should ever be conscripted into a polygamous commune. Keep it in your back pocket!

Previously: Asthma Attack by CockNBullKid

Asthma Attack by CockNBullKid

CockNBullKid is one of the many sassy ladies occupying prime positions in my iTunes of late. I love this song mostly for the start: London I love you but you’re bringing me down/ in that special way only you know how. Also, amazing fairy lights crown at 2:28, if you’re into that sort of thing. 

jkjkjkjkjkjkjkjkjkjk:

(via hfml)

Kate and Janelle - Star Witness (Neko Case cover)

This cover is absolutely fucking gorgeous. The echoes of the stairwell are beautiful and perfect. Fox Confessor is one of my favorite albums of all time.

The words used on music blogs that lead me to download a track

  • cheerfully frenetic
  • sweet girlgroup-esque
  • whistling like a loon
  • clear-eyed acoustic
  • retro-tinged
  • bright and mesmerising melodies
  • two riotous minutes of madness
  • catchy (blank)-pop
  • an insistency to the beat
  • lulling and repetitive
  • a song cycle based on texts by playwright (name of playwright)
  • indie-pop darlings
  • fresh and bouncy
  • jaunty beat
  • whirling and pulsating tune
  • jangle art-pop treat
  • sultry, slow-burn quality
  • somewhat sneering
  • Sufjan Stevens-produced
  • full of urgency and joy
  • this band likes to get drunk
  • pretty relaxed, close-to-hymnal
  • crisp little ditty
  • freak-folk
  • feelgood skirt-swisher
  • clanging slacker charm
  • dreamy disco plea
  • handclaps

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nick-andopolis:

The Mountain Goats - Commandante

I got a great big secret written down somewhere
I got a rosary to protect us both from harm
I got a storage locker full of cow figurines
and a laundry list of grievances longer than my arm
and I am never going back to Cincinnatti
all those bridges have burned down to the ground
I got the jet pack strapped to my back
and I am waiting for you to come around.

The new New Pornographers video for Moves, written and directed by Tom Scharpling, has everybody! Wyatt Cenac, John Oliver, John Hodgman, Paul Rudd and Bill Hader (in what I thought was a very real ad for a very real movie in the beginning - Hollywood has lowered my standards considerably) and also DONALD GLOVER. Also, Julie Klausner, Max Silvestri and Gabe Delahaye of the Internet! Literally some of my favourite people on the Internet!