Weekend Candies - 5 Of April, 2013

So what we've got this week? Down below you can listen to this week playlist which features three songs from the past: Seven Nation Army by The White Stripes who celebrated Elephant's tenth anniversary; Jump They Say by David Bowie who celebrated 20 years to Black Tie, White Noise and one for Kurt Cobain who committed suicide 19 years ago. The other fresh songs are coming from all around the world  and I hope you'd like the new releases of Valentina, Rilo Kiley, Dido, Witch Hunt, John Smith, , Bensard Lakes, Junip, Tove Lo, Fossil Collective, British Sea Power, The Blue Square, Anika, Carousel and Still Corners, enjoy

The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army Taken From Elephant , 2003

Ten Years Anniversary

Dido - Girl Who Got Away (Acoustic Version) Taken From Girl Who Got Away, 2013

 

Witch Hunt - Crawl Taken From Forthcoming Crawl, 2013

 Besnard Lakes - The Specter Taken From Until In Excess, Imperceptible UFO, 2013 

 

British Sea Power - Machineries Of Joy Taken From Machineries Of Joy, 2013

The Blue Square - Psyche Trip

 Anika - Love Buzz

Carousel - Another Day

 

David Bowie - Jump They Say Taken From Black Tie, White Noise, 1993

Twenty Years Anniversary

Still Corners - Berlin Lovers Taken From Forthcoming Strange Pleasures, 2013

Fossil Collective - Wolves Taken From Forthcoming  Tell Where I Lie, 2013 

 

Tove Lo - Habits

John Smith - Salty And Sweet Taken From Great Lakes, 2013

Rilo Kiley - Let Me Back In Taken From Rkives, 2013

 

Valentina - Ladders Taken From Forthcoming Wolves EP, 2013

Junip - Your Life, Your Call Taken From Forthcoming Junip, 2013

Nirvana - Seasons In The Sun

Nineteen years since Kurt Cobain Suicide

Girl Who Got Away - Dido

 

I don't think she's got the longest name in the world, but Dido Florian Cloud De Bounevialle O'Malley Armstrong, which you'd recognise by her first name has got a great angel-like voice. That's been a long time since we heard from this singer and I was very excited by the opportunity to listen that voice again in her fourth release Girl Who Got Away. After achieving world wide fame due to her debut No Angel (1999), which led to winning the prizes of BRIT and MTV Europe, Dido made two more albums and recorded one live concert at Brixton Academy, which shows how talented she is. I don't know a lot of artists who sounds the same either at the studio and the stage, but I'm sure that Dido is one of them. The new album is ears-pleasing as usual, but suffers from heterogeneity of songs. Some of them sounds great, others you'd rather to fast forward. Dido keeps singing with the same passion as in her earlier releases, she's dedicating herself to every word she sings, but sometimes it seems that the lyrics downgrading her vocal skills. Still, this album is well produced and nice to have in your own discography for late starless nights. Three of the best songs in her latest release are waiting for you below with two other from the past.

Album Rating: 6/10

Girl Who Got Away, Acoustic Version (Taken From Girl Who Got Away, 2013)

White Flag (Taken From Life For Rent, 2003)

 

Day Before We Went To War (Taken From Girl Who Got Away, 2013)

 

Take My Hand (Taken From No Angel, 1999)

 

No Freedom (Taken From Girl Who Got Away, 2013)

Postcards (Pick Word #14)

These days we can see that all forms of communication are in rapid change. What was once impossible to achieve is getting easier day by day. In the past, when we wanted to tell someone far away about our feelings, he should have waited few days or even weeks until he got the letter. Today we can reach each other by mili-seconds by sending an Email to the other's smartphone. I think that we lost some of the excitement in waiting while the speed of communication (and life...) accelerated. I remember that I've been waiting over a month until I've got a beautiful postcard from a girl I met in a Polish school for future train workers near Krakow, but it worth it. The hand writing, the questions and even the mistakes she made had human scent. Here are five songs by Beirut, Faithless, Alexandre Desplat, Mark Knopfler and The Walkmen, that will try to remind us something that might disappear soon...

Faithless Featuring Dido - Postcards (Taken From Sunday 8PM, 1998)

The Walkmen - Postcard From Tiny Islands (Taken From You & Me, 2008)

 

Beirut - Postcards From Italy (Taken From Gulag Orkestar, 2005)

 

Alexandre Desplat - Postcards (Taken From The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button Soundtrack, 2008)

 

Mark Knopfler - Postcards From Paraguay (Taken From Shangri-La, 2004)