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We spite the cold weather with some springy pop tunes this week, including your doctor recommended dose of Swedish pop (now with vitamin-D)! We’ve got some new Peter Bjorn & John and Acid House Kings, as well as some Lykke Li by listener request (now pronounced 100% more accurately, thanks Michael!).
Also, in anticipation of a new album (Was I the Wave? due out next week), we’ll hear a new track from the Polaris short-listed Miracle Fortress, and also a new releases from The Kills and Winnipeg’s Imaginary Cities, who will be opening for The Pixies when they play Wednesday in Hamilton.
We’re rounding out the show with a (long) track by Godspeed You! Black Emperor, who have re-formed for a tour and will be playing in Toronto all weekend. The track, based on an interview with some rambling guy on the street (identifying himself as Blaise Bailey Finnegan III), is dedicated to all those hopeful and nostalgic types like us who thoroughly enjoyed that moment back in the late 90s and early 2000s when it seemed, if only for a second, that people would work together to fight for a socially-just world.
Well, instead we got an economic crash, Smartphone Zombies and high unemployment, but hey, the future’s a wide open place and people keep reminding me that another world is possible. Maybe a little dark but hopeful music is just what we need to be reminded of that fact…
- Imaginary Cities – Hummingbird (Temporary Resident EP)
- Grouplove – Getaway Car (Grouplove)
- Connan Mockasin – Megumi The Milkyway Above (Please Turn Me Into The Snat)
- The Kills – Pots And Pans (Blood Pressures)
- Miracle Fortress – Raw Spectacle (Was I the Wave?)
- Peter Bjorn And John – Breaker Breaker (Gimmee Some)
- Jens Lekman – A Postcard To Nina (Night Falls Over Kortedala)
- Acid House Kings – Would you say stop? (Music Sounds Better With You)
- Lykke Li – Sadness Is A Blessing (Wounded Rhymes)
- Jill Barber – Daydreamin’ (Mischievous Moon)
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Blaise Bailey Finnegan III (Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada)
| Imaginary Cities – Hummingbird (Temporary Resident EP) |
| Grouplove – Getaway Car (Grouplove) |
| Connan Mockasin – Megumi The Milkyway Above (Please Turn Me Into The Snat) |
| The Kills – Pots And Pans (Blood Pressures) |
| Miracle Fortress – Raw Spectacle (Was I the Wave? (mp3)) |
| Peter Bjorn And John – Breaker Breaker (Gimmee Some) |
| Jens Lekman – A Postcard To Nina (Night Falls Over Kortedala) |
| Acid House Kings – Would you say stop? (Music Sounds Better With You) |
| Lykke Li – Sadness Is A Blessing (Wounded Rhymes) |
| Jill Barber – Daydreamin’ (Mischievous Moon) |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Blaise Bailey Finnegan III (Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada [EP]) |
