what i've been into.

so, i've been listening to nothing but instrumentals this past week.
i've been enjoying them more recently for two reasons:
a) it's a chance to really take in every note played by every instrument, rather then trying to focus on the lyrics someone is singing. sometimes, the music just comes out more beautiful. it gives me this...insane, orgasmic rush. (sorry for using imagery.)
b) you can kind of be more creative with these songs. i always paint a picture to it, and tell some sort of story or think of situations heavy on my mind. it intensifies mostly everything i'm thinking of.

lately, it's been a lot of explosions in the sky and various broken social scene songs, along with other orchestra music I downloaded from many sources. I'm still looking for more, new things.
mmm, theres this one broken social scene song that absolutely stuns me. it's so unbelievably chilling and it's called : I slept with Bonhomme at the CBC.
I'm pretty sure Bonhomme is french for snowman, and I found out that CBC stands for 'Canadian Broadcasting Corporation"
so, I found that interesting. and Lacie, since you read this, this is the song I was talking about that i'm pretty sure i want to walk down the aisle to on my wedding day. especially during the part where the japanese sounding instruments come in. i posted a video of this song below if one of you has never heard it. It would be the most perfect wedding, hopefully I'm still as into the song by then as I am now.
I also especially love, love & mathematics, alive in 85 & Da da da da.

Explosions in the sky, my favorites are Yasmin the light, First breath after coma, Glittering blackness, Your hand in mine, The birth & Death of day, and Catastrophe and the cure. A lot of these come from "All of a sudden I miss everyone", "The earth is not a cold dead place" & "Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Live Forever"

So check some of those out while you're at it. The only difference is, explosions in the sky is ALL instrumentals, and Broken Social Scene isn't. these are just songs I really like, but all of their stuff to me is amazing.

This doesn't mean at all that I favor instrumentals over lyrical music. I like it all the same, it's just recently for some reason it has really been fantastic. I go through music phases, i'm sure a lot of you know that. I never stop liking something, i just listen to something else more than other things for a while. Like, around christmas I was listening to all oldies & classics. Which I love to death, but now, it seems to be instrumentals. and I think it's just lovely.

here is the video. please enjoy as I have. try even falling asleep to it, it creates a peaceful rest. oh, and either wait for or skip to 2:35 ish, that's the part that really draws me in.



By the way- this is lyrical but I just now introduced myself with Yeasayers new album "Odd blood", and I really like it! I don't know why I'm overdue on this, I really liked All Hour Cymbals. the first album sounded more...raw? I don't know, they definitely have different sounds to them but I love it!