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Now that's something to be thankful for!
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2e72HPwrhE

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As I suspected last week, I discovered there's a new Hello Saferide album and now I'm down a Hello Saferide rabbit hole.
I feel like writing an album review that references all of her other albums that no one I know has listened to.
I've got a thing for ESL folk-pop singer-songwriter stuff with subtle nordic accents and mispronunciations leaking through and in which the emotions expressed don't always match the words*.
So, basically Hello Saferide and Marit Bergman (who now seems to be focusing on Swedish).

*There's a word for this, right? Is it "irony"? I don't know if I'm clearly expressing the idea. Like the songwriter is composing lyrical lies to convince either herself or the addressee of the song.
It's something Will Oldham does a lot, singing songs with defiant lyrics about heartbreak (e.g. "Master and Everyone"). Typically there's a shell of emotional distance in there.

I leave this afternoon for my great-uncle-in-law's place a few miles outside a Todd County hamlet. I'm not going in to the office, but calling in for a meeting, busy time of year and all.

I wonder what songs will by my earworms out on the stand. My first year hunting was the year of the Halloween Blizzard, and I can still remember staring across a snow-covered field with "Lola" in my head. Just parts of it, really, as I wasn't particularly familiar with the tune, and I had heard it on my father's oldies radio station on the pickup ride out to the country. So really, I was just spelling "Cherry Cola" and "Lola" for hours.

In a more recent year, I've had the English-Language works of Säkert! (that is, the Hello Saferide discography) on mental loop. (Aside: new Hello Saferide!?!?! I thought she had retired that.) Oh crap, I just listened to "Anna" again. I'm wrecked right now and I may be singing that to myself all weekend.

Update: Hello Saferide is still great. Feel free to follow those youtube links and join me down this rabbit hole.

I solved the problem of all the songs I couldn't remove from my iPod.
When I'm in a mood for a big change of music, I completely replace my primary iPod playlist, rather than remove individual songs.
At one point, I must have accidentally moved my old "AMR's iPod 4" playlist onto one of my bird call playlists that I kept on my iPod.
But I finally got rid of it, but forgot to add my Halloween collection.
I haven't much to add to last year's. Maybe that new Andy Stott.
There might be something good for it on this new-ish album from Vessel.
I've listened to it a lot in the last week trying to figure it out. I don't think it's as good as that review is making it, but I want to listen again and take it further apart just about every time I want to sit down and listen to something.

I've been on the same shuffle for most of the week. I'm not going to stop it until I update my pod's contents.

I've got the day off in anticipation of my birthday. I need to make myself a birthday mix CD.

Daneeka's Ghost was right, this new song from Andy Stott is awesome. I'm seriously looking forward to the whole album.

One of my favorite vocalists, who also went by the name "Daddy Gee" on some records and sounded like Massive Attack's Daddy G chopped & screwed. Here's his Prince cover with Kode9, the first release on Hyperdub.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMgGxkFp7Yw#t=27
Apparently of cancer.

I should probably remember to post one of these, as it is Friday.
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