Dear Music, I Love Love Love You

Since I saw Page France last month I've been wanting to write about music because I love love love it so much. I find that my lust for music, while passionate and earnest, is difficult to articulate. It is visceral - I feel it in my heart and don't think about it in my head the way I used to about movies when I was an annoying movie snob (was, right?).

A friend recently told me he'd been trying to figure out why we liked Page France as much as we both do, he couldn't come up with anything. I told him they make me feel full. It made perfect sense.

I am generally pretty literal when it comes to music - I'm a total sucker for a hypersensitive skinny boy with a guitar and a handful of semi-poetic lyrics - phrases of which I've been known to inscribe in the margins of journals or on the underside of my left wrist. Page France's lyrics are laden with blatant references to Christianity and characterizations of Jesus, things which I often find off-putting in music or conversation - but I hardly notice the overtness now, their lyrics melt away and meld with all the millions of tiny noises, of tinging xylophone notes and broad guitar strums. Their songs aren't songs, there are events. And fullness.

I guessed it was hard for me to review an album or an artist or a song because to be analytical about a thing that is so personal and emotional seemed impossible. I've been loving and loving music more and more for the past month and the death of my ipod encouraged me to fling my feelers out and have explored new music in a way that I think has changed my life. Maybe.

I've been thinking about making a music podcast because I am in love with making podcasts and it has always secretly been my dream to be a dj (when I do voice overs at work I get sooo excited!) but copyright laws being what they are that doesn't look like it's going to happen. Instead I offer you this well crafted playlist.

My podcast concept was constructing playlists under some common theme, I'd loosely compiled one of "morning songs" and of "airport songs." The following are connected by sheer awesomeness.

1. Harmour Love - Syreeta Wright
2. Now That I Miss Her - Elefant
3. Insomina - Electric President
4. More Adventurous - Rilo Kiley
5. Great God Bird - Sufjan Stevens
6. Love & Interuption - Page France
7. Morning Crescent - Belle and Sebastian
8. Your Ex-Lover is Dead - Stars
9. The Funeral- Band of Horses
   
10. Margaret vs. Pauline - Neko Case
11. Hopefully - My Morning Jacket
12. Absolutely Cuckoo - The Magnetic Fields
13. First Day of My Life - Bright Eyes
14. Heartbeats - Jose Gonzalez

P.S. Thank you, 3 Hive, for existing.