Do
you know how sometimes you're going about your life
as usual, getting stuff done, and then suddenly you
read or hear or see something that makes you stop and
pay attention—like really pay attention
and wonder how on earth it is that you didn't stumble
across this particular band/author/director/artist etc.
before? Because what he or she or they are creating
is like a glorious shiny wonder in a mostly unremarkable
heap of the familiar, contrived or uninspired.
Yeah, so THAT happened today when I listened
to a band called The
Airborne Toxic Event doing some acoustic versions
of their tracks here.
So obviously I couldn't stop there and had to pull up
their MySpace and do some YouTube searching.
Innocence (acoustic, extended)
Sometime Around Midnight
Gasoline (acoustic)
Listen to the lyrics and you won't be
at all surprised to learn that their lead singer and
guitarist Mikel Jollett was, before turning to music,
working on a novel.
Needless to say I've just ordered their
self-titled first album, which was released on August
5th, and I can't wait until it gets its glorious shiny
wonder self over here!
The
Airborne Toxic Event
Do
you know how sometimes you're going about your life
as usual, getting stuff done, and then suddenly you
read or hear or see something that makes you stop and
pay attention—like really pay attention
and wonder how on earth it is that you didn't stumble
across this particular band/author/director/artist etc.
before? Because what he or she or they are creating
is like a glorious shiny wonder in a mostly unremarkable
heap of the familiar, contrived or uninspired.
