Packin' up and movin

can't guarantee I won't ever write here again, but with how often I do update this piece, it's definitely a possibility. I've moved on to simpler, more trendy pastures, and set up a tumblr (I knoooooooooooooow how lame am I?) but please, czech it out because it'll be the same old Eddie, just in a concentrated, 5% fruit juice form. http://eddieriviello.tumblr.com/ ya heard?

One more

One more post, before actually starting homework at 3 am... because this history paper won't write itself (any takers? I will pay you for it somehow ;)

How To Dress Well is another artist I can't get enough of lately, and I feel like I've got the perfect description to clue you in on what Tom Krell's lo-fi R&B baby (2010's Love Remains) sounds like - imagine Justin Timberlake (JT from here on out) went out in a club in an obscure Eastern Block European country - A -slavia type deal. Getting mighty drunk, he stumbles upon a fellow American, the grizzly bear of a crooner Justin Vernon (JV now) on the steps of the already dispersing uber chill European lounge/club that's open until an absurd hour. Now, JT and JV know who each other is (a little facebook creeping) but have never had the pleasure of meeting. A little shy introduction, and fueled by alcohol the conversation treads familiar territory, ruminating on typical American things (Hot dogs, baseball, guns) and suddenly, they're snowballing into a homoerotic avalanche - and before you know it, JT has smooth talked the vulnerable JV into his Euro shag pad. And the rest is history... which picks itself up 20 years later when the kid they magically produced is born in the form of How To Dress Well's music.

Now you know exactly what it sounds like! Right? No?! Well check this out then and forget the time you've just wasted reading that ^. Oh! and please give the lo-fi sound a chance, and don't assume that your headphones/speakers are broken. I have heard his Love Remains album in its entirety and this song is probably the strongest case against lo-fi... it's a great album you should definitely grab given the chance!

http://howtodresswell.blogspot.com/

Lovely Bloodflow

Baths is a great artist out of the Chatsworth, California. I've honestly never been a fan of this genre of music for lack of an artist to hook me and reel me in to the electronic/down tempo/glitchy stylings he and his peers put out, but something about Will Wiesenfeld's vulnerable yet ernest sound drew me in. Take this ill music video and song, entitled 'Lovely Bloodflow,' a track off his 2010 full length Cerulean. When I hear Wiesenfeld botch the entrance of his vocals, and continue the track, pretentiousness flies out the window, and is replaced with a relatable sense of humanity. This music video is a great representation of his music because you'll sit there thinking "I don't know what the fuck is going on, but it is so dope." Which is pretty much all I thought upon hearing Cerulean - a mindfuck wrapped in a leather jacket. A sound so dope you can smoke it. Czech it.

Actually, fuck it I'll make it a twofer and throw up every I know's favorite track by Baths, Aminals

A Winner's Attitude/Guide Towards Life

If I had a feather for every time I asked why, I'd be higher in the sky than Icarus and Daedalus combined.

If I had a scale for every time I wondered how, I'd be deeper than the crepuscular alien-like fish that no one really knows what they are, or what their motivations are in life!

If I had a rock for every time I doubted myself, I'd build a mountain of K2 proportions two times over, with a quarry of materials to spare.

If I had a drop of water for every time I sat and did nothing about it - I'd be sitting in the middle of an ocean that dwarfs the Pacific, glass half empty of self worth, half full of self loathing.

Tiny Vessels

"I spent two weeks in Silver lake, the California sun cascading down my face. There was a girl with light brown streaks - and she was beautiful but she didn't mean a thing to me. Yeah, she was beautiful but she didn't mean a thing to me."

Transatlanticism is the sole Death Cab For Cutie record I can honestly say I really dig, and not care about how cheesy it is, or how many tween girls scribble the earnest story telling of Ben Gibbard into the tattered flaps of their diary-cum-school books. This song really hits me hard, trying to imagine meaningless sex and days drawn out with someone you're too afraid to tell the truth to.

We Owe This To Our Ears

Not too shabby! "Dark is the way, Light is a Place" will be the next studio offering from perennial pop punk outfit Anberlin, and will bring the tally to five LP's in their 3 year existence.

Villagers

If I had a ship I would name it the S.S. Pizazz.

Another Conor, this time from Ireland, but almost as emotionally pained and huggable as that Oberst fellow.