This was supposed to be Depeche Mode, but it got away from me

[petronia]

Conjure One - Manic Star: my favorite Conjure One track, meaning that - yes - I like it even better than "Center of the Sun". Which is saying quite a lot. It's an amazing song clear through, but come the bridge the melody soars impossibly - impossibly, like if you jumped out the window at that very second the girl's voice would catch and hold you in the air.

The Notwist - Consequence: I talk constantly about the Notwist. I don't think I've ever posted any Notwist. This is probably because I associate the Neon Golden album wholesale with Mirage of Blaze, much as I do with Songs of Faith and Devotion - they're both concept albums to my ears, with central conceits I'd rip off and order thematic Mirage fanfiction vignettes around if, er, I were writing any such thing. And... that's pretty much it. I guess discussing it doesn't involve as much of what Suze calls "lossy overhead" as I thought. XD

They sound somewhat like the Postal Service, only... slowed down and not as happy. XD Speaking of which--

The Postal Service - (This Is) the Dream of Evan and Chan: for those as don't have it already. Technically speaking this is before they started calling themselves the Postal Service, and came out as a collab on the Dntel album.

Kings of Convenience - Misread: because I seem to have tangled the Notwist and KoC into one semantic field, and to commemorate my and Aki's discovery that the guy who isn't Erlend in KoC is unexpectedly and unaccountably good-looking. How do you justify writing a twee forlorn-yet-danceable-in-a-Belle-and-Sebastian-sense song like this if you have Roman-statuary facial features? That, my friends, is not on.

(His name is Erik - can I just say that I love the names? - and while Erlend does DJ schtuff he appears to study architecture and psychology or something.)

Massive Attack - Dissolved Girl: a song for Yukiko. Those as know what I mean, etc.

Comments

[windsor.livejournal.com]

You have fantastic, fantastic taste in music. :>

[rondaview.livejournal.com]

Has Conjure One ever put out any albums? And if so, any names? I can't seem to find any Conjure One songs besides Tears from the Moon, Center of the Sun, Manic of the Sun, Pandora, and Make a Wish.

Massive Attack and Postal Service! I have everything except for the Notwist, so snagged that. Thanks!

[windsor.livejournal.com]

Danica, I totally did not know that you were into the Postal Service! <3. How awesome.

[rondaview.livejournal.com]

Ahaha, I think after that one mp3 post of yours that left me going, who are all these people ?_??, I hauled myself off to the music comm -- tehmusic, was it? -- and er, expanded my musical horizons. Speaking of which, you should do one of those posts sometime soon. Maybe this time I'll have half a clue as to the people you're talking about. :))

(And it's manic star, obviously. Me write good.)

[petronia.livejournal.com]

One, self-titled, containing all the songs you list (and not that many others). But it's the side project of one of the guys from Delerium, so frankly it just sounds like an evolved Delerium album to me. XD

[fantabulous.livejournal.com]

Took Manic Star, Consequence, and Evan and Chan. =) Thankye!

[sesame-seed.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Grabbed them all, and wow, Dissolved Girl really is Yukiko's song, isn't it? o_o