The Lucksmiths – The Cassingle Revival

Because you promised when it happens / you’ll return

Earlier today I was checking out an album by Jeremy Messersmith and noticed that, like many others, he’s selling cassette tape copies next to the downloads and the vinyl.

The Lucksmiths of Melbourne had our burgeoning tapestalgia pegged way back in 2002. But instead of another sly dig at what, even then, must have seemed inevitable, by its last verse this song becomes something altogether more wistful.

This is the soundtrack to every sun-dappled hipstamatic photo of city treetops you took last year, and as usual I didn’t understand the weight of that until much too late.

(The way they sing “noticing” in the opening line still hurts.)

Sibylle Baier – Forget About

oh it’s beautiful the way you wear your shirt

The Innocence Mission – God Is Love

So it’s a hot hot hungover Saturday and I came on here to post something with beats, something sunny and fresh you know, some Tanlines or Fol Chen or those Au Revoir Simone remixes or maybe just some pop that screams summer but then I fell over backwards into these new tracks from The Innocence Mission and they disarmed me completely, here is one for you. Against the weather, against songs about God, against every impulse here we are. It’s too lovely can you open the window already.