Now, Now - "Dead Oaks"
This album feels very wintery to me (but maybe it's just because the first thing I learned about Now, Now is that they are from Minnesota). Makes me excited to break out my pilled wool beanie, push my side bangs very much to the side, and slather on some lived-in black liner a la the band's adorable emo-throwback frontwoman Cacie Dalager.
Tigers Jaw - "Spirit Desire"
...I'm sensing an emo-revivalist theme on this here playlist. Say what you will about the genre, but few other bands cut right to the heart of no-fun feelings - shame, boredom, falling hard in unrequited love - with quite the same charm and verve like Tigers Jaw and their generic peers. I find something really compelling, sort of irresistible, about the juxtaposition between this messy, sexy, lolling drumbeat and the embarrassingly honest, sticky-sweet lyrics.
Eisley - "Shelter"
The celestial Dupree sisters are sort of my life idols. (Not only because they made one of the best albums of 2013.)
Speedy Ortiz - "Bigger Party" (listen here)
(Speedy Ortiz, via NPR)
I cannot get enough of Speedy Ortiz (Major Arcana = the second best album of 2013). I know they're probably sick of all the Pavement comparisons, but seriously - it's a little uncanny. (Or it would be, if Stephen Malkmus had boobs.)
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