Yesterday's Shuffle: Well, you can have all you ask for, though it's not what you want

Heard during commute, whilst attempting to reconcile the resuming weekday requirements with slight, pink clouds of impulses and ocean dreams in the sky.

What you do 9 - 5 doesn't have to be you.

The Best of 2012: I Keep Thinking About A New Thing

My Completely Unsolicited, Utterly Belated, Entirely Unnecessary, Wholly Egocentric Best Of 2012 List:

1. Field Music, Plumb

I have routinely walked, glassy-eyed-stumbled, faintly perceived while troubled on a bus, scurried to pick up lunch under a wild sky, bracingly trekked by lake, belted aloud with, felt in my soul this album for a solid year, February to February.

And it's the best thing I heard all year.

And so the/my best tracks, in ascending order:

On Repeat: The questions we tend to ask / Are useless if time is too fast

On Repeat: I'm only doing what you told me to do

I can't find lyrics online so, oh darn, I'll have to listen to this over and over again.



At this point, even though the Brothers Brewis are riding atop a lauded 2012 release, I'll take just about anything I can grab from Field Music's orbit. And I applaud the point that "it's pretty essential to not feel trapped by" being your band; it's a definite reminder that I've been cooped up in projects and "the band" myself, and what that can do to you.

On Repeat: We're close enough to stop.

This has turned my day around.



What would make my day even brighter as the sun lowers? That these guys would tour the U.S. (again--since I discovered them a good six months after they were here already.)