sunny

1. today the sun is shining

2. heute scheint die sonne

3. solen skinner i dag

learning to like

step 1.
a cloud of layered sounds, but through the fog sweet familiar melodies are discernible

step 2.
melodies have vanished, listen to the flashes of depth in the sound clusters and the subtle evolving of the rhythm

step 3.
rhythms became more unfamiliar, now listen to the stretching, creaking and squeaking of the space in-between

indie vikings

1. indie vikings right now are united in calling this very tasty

2. jam creoles have decided, this totally rules

3. counter culinarias might think, this sounds like me

cold hard facts

1. All I can hear there's a sale downtown I gotta have some money today
But there's things at home that's never been used you bought last bargain day

2. Well I tell her we'll have to cut down here is what you said
What's mine is mine what's yours is mine that's how I got in this mess

3. But I'll get ahead someday...
If the sun comes up and my wife cuts down I'll get ahead someday

creationism

1. this just feels so right, as if it's discovered and not created

2. this feels like eavesdropping, like it's going on even without any listeners

3. this feels accidental, passing by, but deliberate, in this way.

post-romantic

1. Dolly Parton and Lord Byron, they said patriotism is the last refuge

2. yes, the feline thing, aways gets me from behind

3. I hope I don’t come across as a coyote in your eye

still jivin?

1. what about the thing, that you really wanna do?

2. what are ya doin, to make it come true?

3. what about you, in the world today?

stomper

1. straight stomping with awkward strings and weird breaks

2. one of the ugliest faces in music with the most soulful voice

3. one of the most screwed up, yet charming musician ever to get a record contract

ill-humored

1. good-humored music can easily make you ill-humored

2. ill-humored got such an unjustified bad rap

3. ill-humored can be so refreshingly european

confirmation

1. no one's gonna let you down, not while I'm around.

2. it all comes right, eventually.

3. it's done otherwise, but this way will also do.