Magnum: It's Time to Come Together (2.1M mp3)
Garnet Crow: picture of world (1.9M mp3)
This is probably an exercise in aesthetic futility. Both these bands are obdurate perfectionists, and the songs I love most fiercely are often the most subtly ingenious variations on elaborately established themes. These are rituals of context, and stripped and isolated they are inexplicable and ordinary. But "ordinary" is exactly where our desperately sensationalist culture so badly lets us down. We live for ever shorter and more transient moments, and then wonder why nothing seems to last.
Garnet Crow: picture of world (1.9M mp3)
This is probably an exercise in aesthetic futility. Both these bands are obdurate perfectionists, and the songs I love most fiercely are often the most subtly ingenious variations on elaborately established themes. These are rituals of context, and stripped and isolated they are inexplicable and ordinary. But "ordinary" is exactly where our desperately sensationalist culture so badly lets us down. We live for ever shorter and more transient moments, and then wonder why nothing seems to last.