The Listening Post No. 13

Gold Plated Diapers: Low Skies "Sad Hymn" MP3

There is something odd about Low Skies' Christopher Salvater's voice—there seems to be a sad moan buried just beneath the surface. It claws it way closer to the light when in lower registers and when it climbs up from it's blue-bladed grave into falsetto, the weeping willows sway. Driven by a big and ragged guitar, Low Skies, "Sad Hymn" turns blue in all the right places.

sad hymn from the album The Bed  (2003)
mp3 courtesy of epitonic.com

The Listening Post No. 12

The Listening Post No. 11

Gold Plated Diapers: Marmoset "MP3 Mix"

This song... it makes Sixeyes feel like he's got two eyes again. Oh, my god, it brings back all that was so mysterious, intense, moving, and undeniably physical about a piece of music that twists about your core.

This is eleven years old again... and it feels so good. And what is so f**kin' amazing is that Sixeyes gets that happiness from several of Marmoset's songs... here they are, free mp3s, in the order of happy, happy, happy.

Thank you, Marmoset.

torn cup, fly up above from the album The Record In Red (2001)
forever we ignite from the album Today It's You  (1999)
frendamine from the album The Record In Red (2001)
chinese checkers from the album HiddenForbidden  (1997)
peace in the valley from the album  Today It's You (1999)
the tuesday horn from the album  The Record In Red (2001)

(mp3s courtesy of epitonic.com)

The Listening Post No. 10

An extra large Listening Post today... thanks to the great free music site, epitonic. And HAPPY CANADA DAY!

bob dylan the times they are a-changin'
patti smith wing
the tallest man on earth 1904
richard swift whitman
el perro del mar glory to the world
divine fits for your heart
the halo benders don't touch my bikini
the xx reconsider
dirty projectors swing lo magellan
kurt vile wakin' on a pretty day
(mp3s courtesy of epitonic.com)

Gold Plated Diapers: Spoon "Lines In The Suit" MP3

So spare, so crisp, like a collar-less dress shirt, freshly laundered. White, starched... slip it on and button it up. You'd swear you can smell hot metal and steam on the papery cuffs as you finger comb your hair. Spoon is all about control—neat, folded, pressed—ready-to-wear out of the package. Pull the top one from it's paper wrapper and snap it in the air... that starchy crack is Spoon. But it's not all clean and smooth, this is music with it's roots in the dirt... born of sweaty rock 'n roll, of R 'n B, and that dirt comes via the gritty, grimy scrape of Britt Daniels' vocals.

lines in the suit - from the band's third album, Girls Can Tell (2001)
(mp3 courtesy of epitonic.com)

Gold Plated Diapers: Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks "The Hook" MP3

Maybe you get the reference to 'gold-plated diapers', maybe you don't. And maybe, juuust maybe, you've never heard this song before. The entire staff here at Sixeyes recalls this song, by Malkmus and his band, fondly; we all love it—especially the cowbell.

the hook
(mp3 provided by epitonic.com - one of the first curated music sharing sites)