Q1: Important Songs

2012 is 25% complete and I’ve managed to scrounge up a lovely baker’s dozen. Just nine more months before 2013 engulfs this beautiful mess.

January 01, 2012: Kathleen Edwards “Change the Sheets”

January 08, 2012: Blaudzen “Le Chant De Cigales”

January 15, 2012: Laura Gibson “Skin, Warming Skin”

January 22, 2012: Sharon Van Etten “Serpents”

January 29, 2012: Hospitality “Liberal Arts”

February 05, 2012: Damien Jurado “Museum Of Flight”

February 12, 2012: Cate Le Bon “Ploughing Out, Part 1”

February 19, 2012: Bowerbirds “Tuck the Darkness In”

February 26, 2012: Y La Bamba “Houghson Boys”

March 04, 2012: Fanfarlo “Lens Life”

March 11, 2012: Grimes “Oblivion”

March 18, 2012: Alex Winston “Locomotive”

March 25, 2012: Yukon Blonde “My Girl”

Bowerbirds

Bowerbirds: Tuck The Darkness In

This song is pretty perfect. Comfort and cacophony. The new Bowerbirds records will be released March 6th on the ever amazing Dead Oceans. There’s a documentary about the making of The Clearing, a tour and so many ways to buy it. Holy smokes that’s a lot of art. These two are fantastic.

“Where the light was rust and the cold was in our knees and our breath poured out over golden fields. Though I could not know then, we’d have but few times like these with all the good smoke in between. Tuck the darkness in, drug the hero across the land, found our fresh start, sow my wildest dreams. Though, I could not know then, I was well in the weeds, a tangled mess, whatever could commence. Before the hours took over, before the full weight was on our shoulders, before the twilight’s cover, before I knew time was such a swindler. I told my dear friend, everything falls to death, we tuck the darkness in, we tuck the darkness in.”

Photo by: D. L. Anderson