Seattle Listens
There' a constant ebb and flow when it comes to the music we love. Sometimes it seems like there's just nothing interesting out there. Nothing to light us up when we listen at home, in our car or on the bus, eyes closed. And then sometimes we find ourselves hauling fist-fulls of new music to the counter of our favorite record store.
This week we've been all about Aqueduct's Or Give Me Death, Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter's Like Love Lust & the Open Fields of the Soul and Band of Horses' Everything All The Time. Yeah we know, we're way behind on that one. Oh, and The Shins' Wincing the Night Away, of course. But that's kind of a given.
Here's what people around town have been buying. What's been perking you up recently?
Sonic Boom
Ballard:
1. Shins “Wincing the Night Away”
2. Peter Bjorn and John “Writer’s Block”
3. Lucinda Williams “West”
4. Jesse Sykes “Like Love Lust & the Open Fields of the Soul”
5. Explosions in the Sky “All of a Sudden…”
6. Aqueduct “Or Give Me Death”
7. Bloc Party “Weekend in the City”
8. Good, the Bad and the Queen “S/T”
9. Menomena “Friend & Foe”
10. Norah Jones “Not Too Late”
Capitol Hill:
1. The Shins “Wincing the Night Away”
2. Peter, Bjorn and John “Writer’s Block”
3. Lucinda Williams “West”
4. Menomena “Friend and Foe”
5. Bloc Party “A Weekend in the City”
6. Aqueduct “Or Give Me Death”
7. Explosions in the Sky “All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone”
8. Deerhoof “Friend Opportunity”
9. Jesse Sykes “Like, Love, Lust & the Open Halls of the Soul”
10. The Good, the Bad & the Queen “s/t”
Fremont:
1. The Shins “Wincing the Night Away”
2. Explosions in the Sky “All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone”
3. Lucinda Williams “West”
4. Peter, Bjorn and John “Writer’s Block”
5. Jesse Sykes “Like, Love, Lust & the Open Halls of the Soul”
6. Bloc Party “A Weekend in the City”
7. Of Montreal “Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?”
8. Vietnam “Vietnam”
9. Lily Allen “Alright, Still”
10. Gabriel Teodros “Lovework”
Easy Street
West Seattle, Queen Anne:
1. Shins: Wincing the Night Away
2. Lucinda Williams: West
3. Explosions in the Sky: All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone
4. Aqueduct: Or Give Me Death
5. Lily Allen: Alright Still
6. The Good the Bad & the Queen: The Good the Bad & the Queen
7. Bloc Party: Weekend in the City
8. Kristin Hersh: Learn to Sing Like a Star
9. Patty Griffin: Children Running Through
10. Of Montreal: Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer
