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Top 10 Don Caballero song titles

10. My Ten Year Old Lady is Giving It Away

9. Belted Sweater

8. You Drink a Lot of Coffee for a Teenager

7. Bears See Things Pretty Much the Way They Are

6. Room Tempature Lounge

5. The World in Perforated Lines

4. Let’s Face it Pal, You Didn’t Need That Eye Surgery

3. Cold Knees-in April

2. A Lot of People Tell Me I Have a Fake British Accent

1. (Let’s Face it Pal You) Haven’t Lived Afro Pop

Matt Berninger’s baritone is….

  • warm, bottomless! (Consequences of Sound d/b/a Time Magazine)
  • oaken! (Pitchfork)
  • subtle! (Drowned in Sound) 
  • guitarists hang around its gravity like clouded starlight! (Rolling Stone)
  • [on this new record] even deeper! (Coke Machine Glow)
  • laconic! (All Music)
  • comely! (A.V. Club)
  • among the most distinct since Leonard Cohen’s! (No Ripcord)
  • sombre! (The Independent U.K. & NOW Toronto)
  • familiar! (The Quietus)
  • [expressing] trends [that] continue to incite rough bouts of schadenfreude and affirmation! (Tiny Mix Tapes)
  • ever-recognizable! (Beats per Minute)
  • doleful! (The New York Times in a photo caption)
  • counterbalanced [by St. Vincent and Sharon Van Etten’s velvet vocals]!  (NME)
  • aching! (Entertainment Weekly)
  • [like] Leonard Cohen’s hovering in midair! (Los Angeles Times)
  • hangdog! (musicOMH)
  • classic! (Wikipedia)

If you ever quit whatever it is you don’t want to do I suggest you spend the next day listening to this song.

americanspokenlanguage:

“A KIND IN GLASS AND A COUSIN, A SPECTACLE AND NOTHING STRANGE A SINGLE HURT COLOR AND AN ARRANGEMENT IN A SYSTEM TO POINTING. ALL THIS AND NOT ORDINARY, NOT UNORDERED IN NOT RESEMBLING. THE DIFFERENCE IS SPREADING.” [—gertrude stein]

The poems of G. Stein by way of cut-up rap vocals. [via]

April in Chicago reminds me of San Francisco in winter this cover and this song.