A loaf of bread and a clean collar; what does man want more?

Sherlock Holmes

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Tiny Vipers – “Eyes Like Ours”
Life On Earth

Life On Earth is a darker and much more spare album than Hands Across The Void, focusing more on Jesy’s voice and guitar, and with a bit more of a bleak and minor-key a feel to it. It doesn’t have the rawness of her self-titled EP or the mystical flow of Hands, but she sounds more confident in her writing and certainly performs it admirably.

Fondlewife: Come, Sir, who are you, in the first place? And what are you?
Bellmour: A Whore-master.
Fondlewife: Very Concise.

Congreve, The Old Batchelor

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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