Loving this track at the moment!

‘Cosmic Love’, one of my faves off Florence and The Machine’s album Lungs

I was originally going to share a Florence and The Machine song but while watching Florence videos I found one of her going record shopping and, long story short, in it she recommended a band called the Sian Alice Group. There was a link to a video from them which I ended up watching. And now here we are!

Close To The Ground by Sian Alice Group

It’s been ages since I did a Music Monday! Here’s an old favourite of mine.

As mentioned in my last ‘Things I Love Thursday’ post, She & Him have made quite an impression on me since getting their debut album last week. They’re an indie-pop-folk duo consisting of the multi-talented Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward.

This particular song is a favourite of mine off the album Volume One (Volume Two is due out in March 2010). I adore Deschanel’s vocals, though I actually fell in love with her voice before ever hearing She & Him. I was on the hunt for Christmas music when I discovered her cover of ‘Baby, It’s Cold Outside’ with Leon Redbone for the Elf movie soundtrack (which you can listen to here). She really suits jazz and retro-esque songs, perhaps because she herself loves vintage.

Bon Iver (Justin Vernon and, now, band) is becoming one of my favourite artists this year. I’ve been listening to his album For Emma, Forever Ago (2007) on repeat the last couple of weeks, and his 2009 EP Blood Bank for several months. Insanely beautiful music, so do check Bon Iver out further.

I might do a little series of his stuff for the next few weeks because I love so many songs. I only picked ‘Skinny Love’ this week because it’s my current favouritest-favourite. This video is of his performance on the UK’s Jools Holland Show (brilliant music show played on Sky TV’s Rialto channel; makes me miss Sky desperately!)

I hope my tiny gaggle of readers are ok. Thanks for sticking with me, guys! Sorry for being a poor commenter on your blogs — university is very time consuming, apparently (harhar ).

This song amuses me greatly. The video is from the 2002 movie version starring Catherine Zeta-Jones and Renee Zellweger.

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This is my favourite Snow Patrol song. I think it’s beautiful and brilliant, and it’s probably the most fitting song to describe a situation I find myself in. Maybe that’s why I love it so much? The addition of Martha Wainwright is wonderful because her voice is so lovely; it really helps to express the meaning of the song by the way it melts into Gary’s.

I find a map and draw a straight line
Over rivers, farms and state lines
The distance from A to where you B
It’s only finger-lengths that I see
I touch the place where I’d find your face
My fingers in creases
Of distant dark places

I’m miles from where you are,
I lay down on the cold ground
And I, I pray that something picks me up
And sets me down in your warm arms

I’m a fan of the show True Blood and I loooove this song, which is the theme for the show. I think it’s a bit sexy.

This is from the movie The Caddy. Look out for a dorky young guy!