Daily Jam - People Do It All the Time

All this time being a fan of music, and i've never been able to see Stereolab live.  For shame Tommy, for shame.  Let me lament for a little while with a particularly kosmische track from the group.  Listen to "People Do It All the Time" below, our Daily Jam.

Stereolab

Holy moly, we've got new music from Stereolab heading our way next month, their first new album in 15 years.  Hooray!  Dig on the kosmische psych pop sounds of "Aerial Troubles" below and pre-order the "Instant Holograms on Metal Film" LP here from Warp.

Daily Jam - Diagonals

Happy Valentine's Day to any who celebrate.  Here's some Stereolab.  Listen to "Diagonals" below, our Daily Jam.

Daily Jam - To the End

My wife and I got married almost 16 years ago in an outdoor service cheekily dubbed the “Lakeside Inferno” by one of my groomsmen, a party held on a 90+ degree day in September by a lakeside vista to cap off about 9 years of dating, which is a kind of surreal thing for me to think about. So much has happened since then. But you should have seen us. Younger. Skinnier. Me with a stupid haircut. We had it all. And now we’re fast approaching a quarter century of being together, and if there’s been any kind of constant in all of that time, it’s been my attempt to get her to listen to and enjoy all of the music I love.

Before the wedding, we spent weeks trying to agree on a song for our first dance. And I enjoyed every second of that long and winding discussion, as we spent many a warm evening drinking beer, wine, or cocktails while I played track after track on the stereo at home. I forget how many tunes we considered as serious contenders, but there were certainly a few. Stevie Wonder’s “I Believe (When I Fall in Love It Will Be Forever)” was a frontrunner for a while, but eventually fell to The Flamingos’ “I Only Have Eyes for You,” the song we both agreed felt right. That being said, I pushed hard for one of my favorite Blur songs, the wonderfully slinky “To the End” from 1994’s Parklife.

Recorded with additional uncredited vocals from Stereolab's Laetitia Sadier (another favorite), the song plays like a melancholy slow dance between two longtime lovers (here played by Sadier and Blur front man Damon Albarn) who have been through it all together, seen everything, and have maybe grown a little distant from each other as the years have passed them by. But they’re still together. And they’re still in love. It’s almost like a last dance.

Ultimately, we went another direction as we were in the market for a first dance, but you can bet I'll be playing “To the End” when it’s comes time for our last.

“You and I collapsed in love. And it looks like we might have made it. Yes, it looks like we’ve made it to the end.”

Daily Jam - Cybele's Reverie

We really don't listen to enough Stereolab around here.  We need to remedy that.  Let's start with "Cybele's Reverie," our Daily Jam.

Daily Jam - The Flower Called Nowhere

I feel like i've got nothing today, so here's some Stereolab.  Listen to "The Flower Called Nowhere" below, our Daily Jam.

Cavern of Anti-Matter

Stereolab's Tim Gane also makes music under the moniker Cavern of Anti-Matter, crafting quirky, motorik, kosmische pop with an array of modular synthesizers and drum machines.  It's good fun.  Listen to "Make Out Fade Out" below and pre-order the upcoming "Hormone Lemonade" LP due in March here from the band's own Duophonic label.