music, books, love and kindness

Have a great Tuesday! I have been away from blogging for a while, but hope to be back here on a much more regular basis. It's not so much that I think what I have to say is important or even should be heard, but that I like to share new books and music I discover. And, yes, also...(sometimes) voice thoughts about a world that sometimes still confuses me...Today, I want to write about this awesome "new to me" album I discovered last week:

Someone once said that writing about music is like dancing about architecture. I don't think I have ever felt more like that than when wanting to do justice to Gem Club. Everything beautiful and sad on their Acid and Everything EP, everything that made it so mesmerizingly haunting, is back on Breakers, a full-length album so intoxicatingly lovely it makes a mess of your heart in the best way possible.

Its quiet restraint (the cello and piano are as much the stars as the gorgeous vocals) should not fool you. This is a very passionate album and a wonderful balm for a soul yearning for healing.

I purchased the entire MP3 album because every single track is worth its weight in gold. So if any are more outstanding than others, it's more a matter of which ones speak most to the individual listener. In my case, it's: "Breakers," "Lands," "I Heard The Party" (oh. my. gosh.), "Black Ships" and "252." Whenever someone says today's music is just awful, I silently wish I could correct them and just say they're listening in the all wrong places. Gem Club is the perfect antidote to everything that is wrong in so much of today's music scene.