Glass Animals - Life Itself

Come back down to my knees
Gotta get back, gotta get free
Come back down to my knees
Be like them, lean back and breathe
Come back down to my knees
Gotta get back, gotta get free
Come back down to my knees
Be like them, lean back and breathe

Glass Animals exploded (heh) on the scene with the quirky, summer groove showcase "Gooey", a song that, admittedly, I could never really get into. It was clear there was something unique there, I just wasn't sure what it was. I did like it enough to be intrigued when I found out that the next record of the month from Vinyl Me Please was going to be their latest, How To Be A Human Being. 

I've just been able to give it a listen. It's awesome and pretty much what you'd expect: funky grooves, a lot of catchy quirkiness and some serious soulful polish. I'm expecting it will be in heavy rotation for a bit. It was a bit hard to pick a Most Important Song to share with y'all, so I went with the first song one the album, "Life Itself". Enjoy.

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St. Lucia - All Eyes on You

I will never take back
The words that I said then
I will always come back to you
Even in the meantime
I will always stand by
A mirror on the shelf
Call you in the nighttime
Call you in the daytime
Can't fess up to you

'Cause I hope
We will never have to take back
What we said in the night
I hope that I will always have
All eyes on you
Know that I will take what I can
When you are there standing by
Soft, spoken in the dead of night
All eyes on you

Another Brooklyn-based artist, St. Lucia (Jean-Philip Grobler) is actually far more exotic (than Jersey boys Real Estate), growing up in South Africa and arriving in NY via England. I can't wait to dance to his set at ACL in about 6 weeks, but I picked this as today's Most Important Song in homage to my kids starting at a new school today. Ugh, that feeling of all eyes on you, hoping to make friends but not wanting to make a misstep. Not really what the lyrics are about but there ya go, any excuse to play a favorite.

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Colin Hay - Overkill

I can't get to sleep
I think about the implications
Of diving in too deep
And possibly the complications
Especially at night
I worry over situations
I know will be all right
Perhaps it's just imagination

Day after day it reappears
Night after night my heartbeat shows the fear
Ghosts appear and fade away

Alone between the sheets
Only brings exasperation
It's time to walk the streets
Smell the desperation
At least there's pretty lights
And though there's little variation
It nullifies the night
From overkill

Nothing says "Australia" more than a classic Men at Work song (at least to an American), am I right? "Down Under" would have been the most obvious choice, but this song is actually my favorite - and the lyrics are so me right now, struggling a bit with anxiety.

Besides listening to music (and yoga, and snuggles when available), I love comedy to cure what ails me. Watching Scrubs reruns on Netflix has been a great panacea from time to time, late at night when I want silly but also sorda melancholy. Not coincidentally, Colin Hay guest starred in an episode of Scrubs, it's second season premier, singing this version of this song. Some clever YouTuber put the clips together for our viewing pleasure. Here's to us all getting through the week ahead any way we can, and my apologies for the Australia-reference-overkill, especially since they're probably not over.

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Woodlock - Sirens

They say the work is hard,
but when I get younger.
Even as the lights dim low,
even as a high winds blow.

I'm writing this as the lights dim low, after a long couple days work, with quite a few ahead of me. Woodlock is a Melbourne-base folk/pop outfit who've got a really pleasant, fun sound. I don't know too much about them, but "Sirens" is an earworm that's been in my heavy rotation for a few months now and well worth your time to check out.

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