Like a Social Status

Animal Collective's "My Girls" certainly has made it somewhere on my life's soundtrack, a song that always tends to make the shittiest of days, much much better. It played in the background for Summer of 09, got us in our beer groove for Tour de Beer in San Diego, has made me spontaneously go "Wooooo" and want to jump up off the earth in glee. I'm quite the fan of this alternative edition by a Montreal DJ named Hatchmatik, who beautifully makes this already dancey song, that much dancier! Major hearts across the board for this track, download it, love it, put it on your "going out" playlist.

Animal Collective-My Girls (Hatchmatik Disco B.)

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Go Easy On Me

I'm a Kings of Convenience girl, and more times than others I turn to them for simplicity in life. Strum me into a rainy or sunshine filled day, and swoon me with your sweet vocals. Norwegian boys sure know how to woo and ahhh their listeners, I bet if I burned one of their cds for my dad, he'd listen to it while he works on his sail boat in the harbor. Thanks to these guys, I'll always have a fascination and never ending love for build ups, gold in the air of summer, move fast with parallel lines, know that failure is the best way to learn, and rather dance with you, than that douche bag across the room. Their new album is airy, breezy, and sweet as per usual, here's some of my faves of the new album Declaration of Dependence.

Kings of Convenience- Mrs. Cold


Kings of Convenience- Renegade

When You're Lucid

Washed Out

The Wah Wah's to gloomtastic days, those type of days that I wish nothing but to curl up in the oh so comfortable fetus position and drown myself in the covers and music.  I'm really, really sick of being on this roller coaster of emotion in life with too much school and not enough me time.  Apparently I only have 5 more weeks of this educational overload and then I'm done!  Being done with school is most likely the scariest thing to grace my presence in my whole life, because the months following it, I, Leiann Marie will really have to figure out my shit and just what I want to do with all this knowledge.  All I really want to do upon this milestone is work for a few months, pay off some debt, save some moola, and hop on a plane or make myself a ballon like the one above, and fly away to a far off place that will inspire me to fall back in love with photography, as of recent I've been in a downward spiral and lack there of motivation.  Girl needs a vacation pronto, and some me time wouldn't be so bad either... However, "This is life and every things alright."

Washed Out-New Theory

Home is Whenever I’m With You

We all once loved Peter Bjorn and John's "Young Folks", for its contagiously catchy whistling parts and overtly indie tones, till it was over palyed into an oblivian.  This song spurs in a Jonny Cash , yippie yi yeah western feel, with boy/girl reciprocation, that I'm quite a fan of.  I could use a ride off into the sunset, but with this whole falling back, the sun is falling down way to fast these days for me to witness it.  Wah wah.  Hope you like this here song!

Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros- Home