shopping

[jfb]

Due no doubt to some chemical imbalance, I have chosen the week preceding Christmas as a perfect time for a CD shopping spree. I'm not worried that other people's gifts will duplicate my purchases--everything I'm buying is pretty obscure, and I think the people who give me presents have all learned that their choices should be obscure too, so there's not much chance of overlap--but there is a problem of overload. I just don't have the opportunity to digest this much music this fast.

Anyway, part of my spree was the discovery, thanks to beautifulnoise, of ToneVendor, and today the package arrived (to my surprise--I wasn't expecting it before Christmas). Here's what it contained:

• CDs by Aurore Rien, Midsummer and Coastal (split CD), Pia Fraus, and For Against, none of which I'd ever heard of before last week.
  
• A blue ribbon neatly tying them together.
  
• A button for Allen Clapp, of whom I have also not heard.
  
• A handwritten note ("happy listening, erik" with a smiley AND a heart) on Pucca stationery ("Garu is the boy whom Pucca likes very much. Soundless Jumping power and remarkable landing is his ability.")
  

Comments

[folkyboy.livejournal.com]

what're the singers like? folk? or whut?

[jfb.livejournal.com]

These ones are, um, I don't really know because this isn't my usual genre, but the store describes its focus as "shoegaze, spacerock and indiepop", so that's probably right. Definitely too electric to be folk.

Let's see--I'm terrible at genre in general, but recent acquisitions that at least remind me of folk include Rick Lassiter (http://www.ricklassiter.com/) (from the CDBaby (http://www.cdbaby.com/) part of the spree), the new live album by Alison Krauss and Union Station (from Miles of Music (http://www.milesofmusic.com)), Kings of Convenience (http://www.kingsofconvenience.com/), and local singer/songwriter/pianist Vienna Teng (http://www.viennateng.com/).

And since I'm... not shutting up yet... current folk-ish listens: Tim Easton, Deb Talan, the Be Good Tanyas, and, constantly, Hem (http://www.rabbitsongs.com/).

[folkyboy.livejournal.com]

i think Kings Of Convenience is emo? or something. they're good