After the Summer Has Gone is a chamber pop song – think Magnetic Fields, with autoharp and marxophone. It was also part of the “summer song” Music Challenge, but it’s more about how the summer in the past tense.
Edit: The feed isn’t updating. I’m checking it out.
Edit: Something’s up on the server – perhaps there are too many songs? I’ve updated software, plugins, and the server type, and it’s working again. I’m leaving this as the song for tomorrow too.
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My Favorite Sunbeam’s Gone Away is a happy and bouncy song with morose lyrics, which Karlos the Jackal always does so well.
Say When is a poppy tale of mismatched yet scrappy love, with upbeat music including the lovely autoharp.
Happy Memorial Day!
Arms and Hands is an indie pop song, with an accordion and lots of keyboards.
I Gave You Lots of Presents (But You Left Me In the Past) is a happily morose song, with Autoharp and toy piano.
Today’s the day of Mayan apocalypse and Timewave Zero! See you in the next age!
I’m Not So Sure It’s Not a Broken Heart is a happy bouncy pop song about heartbreak. It’s pretty catchy, and it has a marimba and autoharp, if you like offbeat instruments. (I very much do.)
I Knew the Bride When She Used to Rock’n’Roll is like a Magnetic Fields outtake; deliberate pace, bass singing, and unusual instruments – Marxophone and autoharp.
The original versions are by Nick Lowe and also by Dave Edmunds, and they’re rockabilly or roots rock.
Half Empty Waltz is an evocative and sad song, a collaboration with es_de_bah. It feels like autumn and Tom Waits and holidays spent alone.
Too Late to Sleep is a dreamy track. It’s an alt-pop song, with a hypnotist,a filtered autoharp, a violin-uke, and a Stylophone.
When We Were Small is a downtempo but mellow song – a strummed autoharp, and a marimba – with lyrics about looking back on childhood as if from a great distance.
When My Baby Was Mine sounds like tragic 1950’s pop, with some extra fuzzy guitar-sounding thing that’s actually an autoharp.
Previously, I posted Karlos the Jackal’s Happy, which I said reminded me of The Magnetic Fields, and having said that of course there’s some similarity here too.
Happy is a fun, catchy, and bouncy song, though I like the somewhat dark vein. You know, like how the Magnetic Fields are sort of happily morose, if that makes any sense.