Pero hoy lo hace estrenando disco (Nine Types of Light, 2011) y single. Algo de relax para afrontar esta semana más corta en lo laboral.

Atención al videoclip futurista con metaverso incluido:

Letra:

It might be impractical to seek out a new romance
We won’t know the actual if we never take the chance
I’d like to collapse with you and ease you against this song
I think we’re compatible, I see that you think I’m wrong

[estribillo]
But, any time will do, my love
Any time will do, no choice of words will break me from this groove
Any time will do, my love
Any time will do, what choice of words will take me back to you?
Ohhh ooooh

Your love makes a fool of you, you can’t seem to understand
A heart doesn’t play by rules and love has it’s own demands
But I’ll be there to take care of you if ever you should decide
But you don’t want to waste your life
In the middle of a lovesick lullaby

[estribillo]

Oh my reddest rose, caldera set it off
How your fire grows hermosa, caldera
Glistening through your fussed blows careen your caldera
Set it off, as your body flows the second hand flashes,
passes over your skin like time

Anytime will do, my love
Anytime will do, my love
Anytime will do, my love
Anytime will do, my love

Anytime will do
No choice of words will break me from this rule
Anytime will do
No choice of words will break me from this rule
Anytime will do

No choice of words will break me from this rule
Anytime will do
No choice of words will break me from this rule
Anytime will do
What choice of words will take me back to you
Ohhh oooooh

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Canciones relacionadas:

1. TV On The Radio – Staring At The Sun
2. Regina Spektor – Fidelity
3. Atomic Tom – Take Me Out

Llegaron a mis oídos gracias a una atípica actuación en pleno metro de Nueva York. Sí, como lo leéis. Pero igual os habéis imaginado la típica escena de un grupo con sus instrumentos tomando un vagón… Pues no. De lo único que estaban armados era de sus iPhones. Si algún día les roban las guitarras, no pasará nada ¡Alucinante!

Os dejo aquí con otra actuación en directo, esta vez ya con sus instrumentos reglamentarios :

Letra:

If I was bold enough
I would follow you forever
but darling please
rescue me, take me out

some may say,
it’s my fate
am i just in time
or am i late
if you can, understand then

[estribillo]
Take me out
I don’t start, I don’t end
I don’t change on my own
Take me out
I don’t lose, I don’t win
I don’t do well alone
Love is what you make it
Take my heart and break it
Take me out
I don’t want to stay home

you make me dread
you make me sweat
but can you make love me something instead
something real, make me feel
then

[estribillo]

I don’t want to stay here
I don’t wanna live half my life
and disappear
so if you want to take chances
take a chance on me

[estribillo]

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Canciones relacionadas:

1. TV On The Radio – Will Do
2. Starsailor – Tell Me It’s Not Over
3. Fanfarlo – I’m A Pilot

De los pocos abanderados que quedan del grunge, esta banda de Seattle hace las delicias de sus fans incondicionales, a pesar de que desde 2009, momento en el que publicaron su noveno disco de estudio (Backspacer), no han vuelto al estudio. Escucharlo con violines y todo, te pone la piel de pollo.

Letra:

Yes I understand that every life must end, aw huh,..
As we sit alone, I know someday we must go, aw huh,..
I’m a lucky man to count on both hands
The ones I love,..

Some folks just have one,
Others they got none, aw huh,..

Stay with me,..
Let’s just breathe.

Practiced are my sins,
Never gonna let me win, aw huh,..
Under everything, just another human being, aw huh,..
Yeh, I don’t wanna hurt, there’s so much in this world
To make me bleed.

Stay with me,..
You’re all I see.

Did I say that I need you?
Did I say that I want you?
Oh, if I didn’t now I’m a fool you see,..
No one knows this more than me.
As I come clean.

I wonder everyday
as I look upon your face, aw huh,..
Everything you gave
And nothing you would take, aw huh,..
Nothing you would take,..
Everything you gave.

Did I say that I need you?
Oh, Did I say that I want you?
Oh, if I didn’t now I’m a fool you see,..
No one know this more than me.
As I come clean.

Nothing you would take,..
everything you gave.
Hold me till I die,..
Meet you on the other side.

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Canciones relacionadas:

1. Télépopmusik – Breathe
2. Midge Ure – Breathe
3. Jet – Look What You’ve Done

Qué podemos decir de Neon Trees: pues que unos chiquitos de Utah, vecinos ellos, montaron su banda con la buena suerte de ser descubiertos y seleccionados para telonear a nada más y nada menos que The Killers. Tras esto, primer disco a la calle (Habits, 2010) y primer hit a las listas: Animal. A eso se le llama llegar y besar el santo. Les perdonaremos el haber versionado a Justin Bieber… (¡gensanta!). Os dejo con el enlace a la versión acústica de Animal por si se os quedado mal sabor de boca .

Letra:

Here we go again
I kinda wanna be more than friends
So take it easy on me
I’m afraid you’re never satisfied.

Here we go again
We’re sick like animals
We play pretend
You’re just a cannibal

And I’m afraid I wont get out alive
No I won’t sleep tonight

[estribillo]
Oh, oh
I want some more
Oh, oh
What are you waiting for?
Take a bite of my heart tonight
Oh oh
I want some more
Oh oh
What are you waiting for?
What are you waiting for?
Say goodbye to my heart tonight

Here we are again
I feel the chemicals kickin’ in
It’s gettin’ heavier
I wanna run and hide
I wanna run and hide

I do it every time
You’re killing me now
And I won’t be denied by you
The animal inside of you

[estribillo]

Hush, hush
The world is quiet
Hush, hush
We both can’t fight it
It’s us that made this mess
Why can’t you understand?
Whoa, I won’t sleep tonight

I wont sleep tonight

Here we go again
Here we go again
Here we go again

[estribillo]

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Canciones relacionadas:

1. Najwa – Como Un Animal
2. Ocean Colour Scene – Better Day
3. The Smashing Pumpkins – Tonight, Tonight

Y, en cambio, yo no soy capaz de usar una música u otra para cambiar de estado de ánimo. Sólo me sirve para acompañarlo. Lo que sí me ayuda es a “amansar” a la bestia que llevo dentro.

Tras este preámbulo, no os tengo que contar cómo estoy con la canción seleccionada para hoy. Este single dio nombre al cuarto disco de estudio de los Death Cab For Cutie (a los que tenía últimamente muy abandonados): Transatlanticism (2003). Emociones a flor de piel con la letra, el acompañamiento de piano, la guitarra y casi ocho minutos de melodía.

The atlantic was born today and I’ll tell you how…
The clouds above opened up and let it out.

I was standing on the surface of a perforated sphere
When the water filled every hole.
And thousands upon thousands made an ocean,
Making islands where no
island should go.
Oh no.

Those people were overjoyed; They took to their boats.
I thought it less like a lake and more like a moat.
The rhythm of my footsteps crossing flood lands to your door have been silenced forever more.
The distance is quite simply much too far for me to row
It seems farther than ever before
Oh no.

[estribillo]
I need you so much closer

So come on, come on

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Canciones relacionadas:

1. TV On The Radio – Staring At The Sun
2. Gomez – How We Operate
3. Kasabian – Underdog

Tonterías a parte, baladón el que se marca el mallorquín en su hasta ahora único álbum: Heavenly Hell (2009). Ya tuvimos por aquí otra canción de ese disco: Crystal Clear. Y más que quedarán…

Letra:

Delicate like a flower
in the deepest ocean
Standing on a pile
Starting to go down
Starting to go down

Washed my hands with fire
and my tears with broken hearts
I’m on a pile
of broken lullabies
broken lullabies

[estribillo]
The sweetest goodbye
The sweetest goodbye
She did it right
I did it wrong
the sweetest goodbye

I build my own desire
I don’t wanna seen
an ingenuous on a pile
starting to go down
starting to go down

[estribillo]

The world that we knew
now it’s covered by clouds
How far I’m from you
I can say what you want
The world that we knew
makes me feel so small

[estribillo]

Is the sweetest goodbye
the sweetest goodbye

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Canciones relacionadas:

1. A Fine Frenzy – Almost Lover
2. L.A. – Crystal Clear
3. Ray Charles & Diana Krall – You Don’t Know Me

Y la banda sonora ideal para acompañar a esa asincronía son canciones como las que fabrica Kasabian. Sonidos sucios, caóticos y con un punto electrónico logrado con esos característicos rasgueos de guitarras.

Os dejo pues con Underdog, tercer single del álbum West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum (2009). Que este tren se pare, que yo me bajo.

Letra:

[estribillo]
Kill me if you dare,
hold my head up everywhere
Keep myself right on this train
I’m the underdog, live my life on a lullaby
Keep myself riding on this train
Keep myself riding on this train

Love in Technicolor sprayed out on walls
Well, I’ve been pounding at the pavement till there’s nothing at all
I got my cloak and dagger in a bar room brawl
See the local loves a fighter, loves a winner to fall

Feels like I’m lost in a moment
I’m always losing to win
Can’t get away from the moment
Seems like it’s time to begin

[estribillo]

It don’t matter, I won’t do what you say
You’ve got the money and the power, I won’t go your way
I can’t take from the people, they don’t matter at all
I’ll be waiting in the shadows till the day that you fall

Feels like I’m lost in a moment
I’m always losing to win
Can’t get away from the moment
Seems like it’s time to begin

[estribillo]

Tell me if you’re down, throw your weapons to the ground
Keep myself right on this train
Hey bird you’re on the wire, sold yourself for another one
Keep myself riding on this train
Keep myself riding on this train

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Canciones relacionadas:

1. Orson – No Tomorrow
2. Atomic Tom – Take Me Out
3. The Temper Trap – Sweet Disposition

Una dedicatoria de una “almost flu sick” .

Letra:

You fingertips across my skin
The palm trees swaying in the wind
Images

You sang me Spanish lullabies
The sweetest sadness in your eyes
Clever trick

[estribillo]
I never want to see you unhappy
I thought you’d want the same for me
Goodbye, my almost lover
Goodbye, my hopeless dream
I’m trying not to think about you
Can’t you just let me be?
So long, my luckless romance
My back is turned on you
I should’ve known you’d bring me heartache
Almost lovers always do

We walked along a crowded street
You took my hand and danced with me
Images

And when you left you kissed my lips
You told me you’d never ever
forget these images, no

[estribillo]

I cannot go to the ocean
I cannot drive the streets at night
I cannot wake up in the morning
Without you on my mind
So you’re gone and I’m haunted
And I bet you are just fine
Did I make it that easy
To walk right in and out of my life?

[estribillo]

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Canciones relacionadas:

1. The Fine Arts Showcase – Chemical Girl [Recomendación]
2. Air – Highschool Lover
3. The Coral – Dreaming of You

Me encanta el videoclip (menos los últimos segundos… ya descubriréis por qué ), pero os recomiendo también una escucha pausada de la canción sin las injerencias del vídeo:

Letra:

Our love was lost
And now we found it
Our love was lost
And hope was gone

Our love was lost
But now we found it
And if you flash your heart
I won’t deny it

I promise

Your walls that run
To cold to touch, yeah
Your walls I rub
To hard to climb

I know its hard
But I can still hear it beating
So if you flash your heart
I won’t mistreat it

I promise

Our love was lost
In the rumor around the things
You, You’ve been dreaming of

Keep me in mind
When your ready
I am here
To take you every-time

Our love was lost
Lost
Lost
…
Our love was lost
Lost
Lost
…
Our love was lost
But now it’s found

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Canciones relacionadas:

1. The Temper Trap – Sweet Disposition
2. The Cure – Friday I’m In Love
3. Sara Bareilles – Love Song

Un rock oscuro que me recuerda en ocasiones a Editors, sobre todo la voz grave de Paul Banks. Lights fue su primer single, que sacaron allá por mayo dejando la libre descarga del mismo en Internet.

Como estoy ansiosa por ese directo, os pongo la actuación que grabaron para la BBC 6 Music Live Session:

Letra:

On that eye see
show me your ways
Teach me to meet my desires
With some grace

On that eye fear
don’t turn away
And leave me to plead in this whole other place
What if I never break

vistuary won’t you take me
far away, far away

On that eye seek
please police me
I want you to police me
But keep it clean

now that you mean my place
now let’s take them away
Strong as you’ve seen
old as you be
thats why I hold you
you will always obey

On that eye feel
cap it always
teach me to grieve and conspire
with my age

On that eye I can see
go mystic spree
seething routine
I could never navigate
maybe I like to stray

no harm it seems be less free
Not today
It’s like you want It that way

On that eye see
peaceful life’s run away from me
Run away from me

We would like to take signs
That’s why I hold you
and bring silence in disguise
That’s why I hold you
we would like to meet
that’s why I hold you
that’s why I hold you
that’s why I hold you
…

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Canciones relacionadas:

1. Thirteen Senses – Into The Fire
2. Vega4 – Life Is Beautiful [Recomendación]
3. TV On The Radio – Will Do