![]() ![]() I probably couldn’t have timed things better since Europe’s version of SXSW, The Great Escape, is taking place in the seaside city of Brighton mid-month. ![]() In just a couple of weeks, I’m flying over to Europe to visit friends and see the sights in both London and Paris. J Roddy Walston and the Business - Take It As It Comes.With that said, here’s a new mix to take with you on your next walk through the falling autumn leaves. Without certain songs, I’m not sure that I would know how to understand or articulate many of my emotions, and it’s just interesting to think about how we might be entirely different human beings if not for these emotional outlets given to us by the songwriters who so graciously let us think of their words as our own for a few precious minutes. Sometimes it makes me feel more than I want to feel, or even more than I know I am feeling–and while that can be an incredibly tough pill to swallow, I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s healthier to simply face the music, even if it breaks us down into tiny little fragments of ourselves. ![]() I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately about the emotional effect that music has on us, or at least on me personally. I trust that I’ll be back there again soon enough. I remember feeling so perfectly content in that moment. I spent one night completely alone sitting on the rocky beach, watching the pink sun set behind the old abandoned pier as birds (perhaps even starlings) circled above it. The title refers to one of my favourite places in the world, the pier in England’s seaside town of Brighton that I visited in May this year. Mp3: Bell X1 - Starlings Over Brighton Pier from Chop Chop (2013) Mp3: Bell X1 - Careful What You Wish For from Chop Chop (2013)Īlso worth sharing is the simple, stunning video for the album’s opening track, “Starlings Over Brighton Pier". ‘Cause these bulbs are the fluorescent kind His words always cut right through me, but particularly in this song. “Careful What You Wish For” features infectious piano and synth lines and is surely one of the album’s standout tracks, also thanks to lead singer Paul Noonan’s angelic-like vocals. Their latest, Chop Chop, is tamer than its predecessors, but holds up well against them (all exceptionally underrated). So here we are.ĭublin’s Bell X1 is a band whose albums I consistently devour upon their release. But tonight I found myself sitting at home alone with a beer in my hand for the first time in such a long time, listening to an album that has brought me peace in many moments during the last month or so of absolute chaos, and I suddenly felt compelled to share it. I know that I haven’t been around these parts much in the last year or more, and at this point I honestly don’t know if that is going to change or stay the same. Sometimes I question whether it is necessary for me to share these things here, but then I remember that the music I post on this blog has always directly tied in with where I’m at in my life and what I’m going through, and I want to continue on with that transparency, even if it means spilling my stupid guts out sometimes. Trying to put your life back together while simultaneously starting a new school program is no easy feat, especially with a few curve balls thrown in for good measure-and while I’ve had days that I felt like I would never come back from, I’m nearly halfway through the first semester and somehow, miraculously, I’m still standing. I have never been a person who deals with change well, and the last few months have involved more than enough of it. But that particular line has always resonated with me, and it seems to sneak its way back into my subconscious whenever I’m feeling exceptionally overwhelmed by things. ![]() I’ve found myself humming “Everything Hits At Once” by Spoon to myself more days than not lately, a funny little habit to have suddenly formed considering that I can’t even remember the last time I listened to Girls Can Tell. It’s coming faster now / and i never thought i’d be here ![]()
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