LWA Blog — life without algorithms

This one might be my favorite, I just love post-rock, ambient and space sounding shit. 

This one is pretty light, just like a romcom, I like it. Track 9 is supposed to be the original Ada cover of Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Maps, but it isn't available on this platform. You can check it out here if you like. This Thomas/Mayer remix is pretty nice, though, and still fits the bill. 

I was digging around my Spotify playlists and found some old ones I actually like. I guess I did a "possible soundtrack" series, because there are four of these. Gonna post them separately, maybe someone will like them?

I recently read Miki Berenyi's Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me from Success. Kinda crazy, but maybe not really, how much shit she talks about Emma Anderson. There's love and friendship there but there are also two different people with different agendas that sometimes overlapped. Makes the run they had all that much more impressive. Also, it's amazing to me how small their circles were in those days. Seems like they were always running into or hanging out with someone from another band I love from those days. She's pretty resilient for having survived that traumatic childhood (just an observation, not...

I've been following Fever Ray since 2009, when I was visiting my friend Joseph in LA and the first single dropped the day I drove to his place. I hadn't heard anything about it when he mentioned it and then we listened to If I Had a Heart. It was a weirdly foggy night in LA, so that combined with the menacing tones and that haunting voice. Man, it still sticks in my head after all these years. I ended up seeing Fever Ray on that tour. The stage was dimly lit, the fog machine got a workout and laser lights illuminated that fog...