gray days make me happy. (#7)

I just can't help it.
Everything looks so dramatic outside, chalked up in lavenders silvers and powdery blues and it all makes me feel like I'm walking around in a movie. And I love music that fits that chilly gray. This playlist is a sampling of stuff I've been coupling with the dreariness, and while I don't think it will bog you down and push you over the edge into deep snowy depression or anything, these songs for sure aren't pretending it's 80 degrees outside. And neither am I. ------------------------------------

1. Island, IS by Volcano Choir
These guys are a collaboration between Justin Vernon and Collections of Colonies of Bees, recorded in Fall Creek, Wisconsin in Bon Iver's recording studio, 3 miles from the house where JV grew up, 10 minutes from the bar where his parents first met.
Aw.

2. Sign of Life by Kunek
It's hard to believe I used to go see this band in Oklahoma for $5, and now they're opening for RADIOHEAD as the band, Other Lives. This is from their album Flight of the Flynns. Now I'll get to go see them in Kansas City.

!!!!!!!

3. I missed the Point by Neko Case
"I have lightning if the stars dry out to guide me".

4. Old Gowns by Mount Moriah
A little bit more country for you - this band is from Old Gowns, North Carolina.

5. Lay Your Cards Out by Polica
A four-piece band with two drummers? That's right.
This girl, Channa, formerly from Roma di Luna, teamed up with 3 other artists connected with Vampire Hands, Gayngs, and Bon Iver. They're local and are kind of exploding right now. They're playing 2 sold out shows in Minneapolis in the next month and 1/2 and I'm missing both of them. Boo. But seriously, sold out shows when they're less than a year into debuting their first album, Give You the Ghost, is pretty impressive.

6. Daphne by Lia Ices
I first heard Lia through my roommate B Tweet.
She's signed under Jagjaguwar, the same recording label as Bon Iver, Volcano Choir, Pele, Gayngs, and Collections of Colonies of Bees. Have you noticed I've mentioned Gayngs twice now? You should probably check them out.

7. A Case of You by James Blake
"I could drink a case of you darlin, and I would still be on my feet." Thank you Joni Mitchell.

8. Don't Tremble by The Low Anthem
I absolutely love this entire album (Oh My God, Charlie Darwin). I like to play this song for my roommates so much, I'm a little worried they might start thinking I'm in love with them. I might be a little bit, in the sense that I want so much for them, and from them.
"If your heart is unemployed, do not rush but do not stall, 'cause I'm waiting."

9. Nothing by Mason Jennings
Heard it on the Current yesterday and I smiled and bobbed my head the whole way through.

10. Love is Won by Lia Ices
I'm breaking Joey Churchill's rule against having 2 songs by 1 artist in the same playlist. I just couldn't choose.
So I made that my choice.

11. Sea of Love by Cat Power
Some days, only the Juno soundtrack will do.

12. Impossible Soul by Sufjan Stevens
Let's be honest - I don't make playlists without Sufjan tucked in somewhere.

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Enjoy!!