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Love or hate the Hallmark holiday named after martyrs, it’s awfully hard to avoid the big V-day if you plan on leaving your cave on the 14th.
In a mean-spirited (or well-intentioned) effort to draw out the pain (or pleasure) of the day, we’re getting to our two-hour collection of love(?) songs a week early this year.
C’mon. You know you love it.
We begin by dedicating a memorable Great Lake Swimmers love song to Hamilton and its rocky spine, and also sample some new tracks from Chairlift & Toronto’s Bahamas, who’s newly released album, Barchords is streaming at the Exclaim! website for your listening pleasure.
Some classic tracks from Spiritualized and Massive Attack close out a couple of six-song sets, we also get to listener request for Adam Cohen (yup, Leonard’s son), and the now-defunct California band, Grandaddy.
Before we close out with a fantastic Mountain Goats tune, we duly report on the well-known Hazards of Love, including a heartbreaking song by Brooklyn’s The Antlers.
Mike and I are taking next week off, but will be back in two with a whack of new releases, old favourites, and (as always), no commercials and loooooots of independent music. Thanks for listening!
- Great Lake Swimmers – Your Rocky Spine (Ongiara)
- Wilco – 11 – Whole Love (The Whole Love)
- Feist – The Bad In Each Other (Metals)
- Chairlift – I Belong in your arms (Something )
- New Order – Bizarre Love Triangle (Brotherhood)
- Spiritualized – I Think I’m In Love (Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space)
- Mother Mother – O My Heart (O My Heart)
- Modern Superstitions – Love That Beats My Heart (All the Things We’ve Been Told)
- Jim Ward – Take It Back (The End Begins)
- Lou Canon – The Dancing (Lou Canon)
- Adam Cohen – What Other Guy (Like A Man)
- Massive Attack – Protection (Protection)
- Darren Hayman – Short Skirt On (Table For One – Dessert Menu)
- jj – my love (jj n° 2)
- Girls – Heartbreaker (Broken Dreams Club)
- Bahamas – Your Sweet Touch (Barchords)
- Grandaddy – Protected From The Rain (Signal to Snow Ratio – EP)
- The Shins – Turn On Me (Wincing The Night Away)
- The Decemberists – The Hazards Of Love 4 (The Drowned) (The Hazards Of Love)
- Kathleen Edwards – Empty Threat (Voyageur)
- Hannah Georgas – Lovesick (This Is Good)
- Bon Iver – Skinny Love (For Emma, Forever Ago)
- The Antlers – Two (Hospice)
- The National – Ada (Boxer)
- The Vaccines – Family Friend (What Did You Expect From the Vaccines)
- The Mountain Goats – Love Love Love (The Sunset Tree)
