This Blog Is Retroactive

I can’t remember where it was that I heard this song recently, but I was immediately smitten with it and also curious as to why I hadn’t heard it before. Not new, but oh so good. Listen to it, and then listen to it again.

This song is all over the web, so yes, I too am currently listening to Yeasayer’s Ambling Alp, and you should be too, because it is awesome.

I was not always a fan of Iron and Wine.  Frankly, the first song I heard by him was his cover of Such Great Heights off of the Garden State soundtrack.  I wasn’t really impressed.  Don’t get me wrong.  I have a special place in my heart for Lo-Fi, but it has to grab me, and nothing I’d heard by Iron and Wine before this song did.  However, when I first heard Someday the Waves on Pandora I was smitten, and only then fully aware of the quiet genius of this musician.  This song is very slow, but it’s also one of those songs that feel so good to be sad to.  Press play and enjoy.

Who is Harlem?  Who is Q Lazzarus for that matter?  Who cares.  I like this song.  Press play so you can like it too.