Broken Radio

Oct. 23, 2011 at 4:09pm with 32 notes

Reblogged from jonathanbogart

pale and reserved = capsule review of yrs truly

4-5. Tove Styrke “High and Low” and Metronomy “The Bay” (suggested by Sally)

One of the most interesting things about listening to a mix like this is getting hints of the personalities behind the picks — inhabiting, at least imaginatively (I don’t claim psychic powers) the ears of a particular, not-mine sensibility. Both of these are songs I’d heard before (they came up on the Jukebox, I believe), but I dismissed them unfairly as slight, unmemorable, or perhaps too removed — and next to some of the flashier or at least louder tracks on this mix they might seem a bit pale or reserved. But I think I see what Sally’s getting at here: attention to detail, to craft and to emotions plainly, even coolly, spoken but deeply felt, is a virtue, and by the last listen I was singing along in the fragmented way I do when I haven’t quite learned a song yet.

Oh god. I am the music I listen to.