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Crime in Choir – “In search of plunder (bum convention)”
The Hoop

The final track from another great Crime in Choir album. This one is short and relatively straightforward. Synth-rock doesn’t attract me fundamentally, but these guys really, really pull it off.

Heh.

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Hank Williams Sr. – “If you’ve got the money honey, I’ve got the time”

Great old song. Congrats to Kaz and Tenny, who turned me on to this one, on their marriage and everything else.

What the hell…. they were all one map?! Why all the separate entrances?

There ran mute behind him such a hound of hell as God forbid should ever be at my heels.

The Hound of the Baskervilles

I trust that age doth not wither nor custom stale my infinite variety.

Sherlock Holmes

Words come later. It is the scent that first speaks of love.

Worf

Marches – “Cold Hands Warm Heart”
4AM Is The New Midnight

This album is absolutely strange, and none of the tracks are at all like any of the others. This weird electro-R&B and its staccato horn section really caught my ear, though.

The little frost-work which Titmouse had thrown around his heart, began to melt like snow under sunbeams.

Samuel Warren, Ten Thousand A-Year

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Early Day Miners – “Marauder”
The Last Snow EP

Normally a very sedate band, Early Day Miners pull out the big guns on this track. Well, they’re normal-sized guns compared to everyone else, but still. Relatively big.

Bellmour: But tell me how you would be ador’d — I am very tractable.

Congreve, The Old Batchelor

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Skygreen Leopards – “The Heron”
One Thousand Bird Ceremony

One of my favorite songs, period. Just the absolute pinnacle of jangly forest-folk. From a fantastic album (their follow-up was disappointing).

What was the past of this Trevor, pugilist, traveller, and gold-digger, and how had he placed himself in the power of this acid-faced seaman?

Sherlock Holmes

The injury therefore that you do to a man should be such that you need not fear his revenge.

Machiavelli, The Prince