Tag Archives: Music

Frightened Rabbit – Holy

On a long drive through Arizona I was reminded about how good this song is and how perfect the lyrics are.

https://youtu.be/j2GkM9FWvag?si=STuJKwepy9T23nvO

I’d embed it for you above but there is no video anywhere but YouTube and YouTube is going through what Cory Doctorow has coined “enshittification”.

Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification, and it is a seemingly inevitable consequence arising from the combination of the ease of changing how a platform allocates value, combined with the nature of a “two sided market,” where a platform sits between buyers and sellers, hold each hostage to the other, raking off an ever-larger share of the value that passes between them.

Cory Doctorow, TikTok’s Enshittification

Fortunately Frightened Rabbit still has a website and the gorgeous lyrics for Holy are there.

The song is gorgeous and I’d love to share it with you.

The Black Angels – Young Men Dead

Apropos of nothing in particular, certainly nothing that’s going on right now, a video of found footage where lots of people died, where the cameras are all focused on one side as protagonists. Where bombs go off far away but we get close ups on the artillery being fired. Absolutely top notch song though.

I’m against young men dying. I’m against people starving each other and murdering each other and driving each other from their homes. I do not think death is the solution for much and stories don’t stop just because we think it’s a good conclusion.

I’m sure everything is more complex, I’m sure, I’m sure – but that’s where most of my reactions stem from.

Young Fathers – Shame

I can’t get enough of Young Fathers – I slowly realized I’m a fan after noticing I’ve listened to tons of their stuff and saved it to listen to again. Look at this beautiful story:

How about this gorgeous track with a gorgeous video that goes meta and comes back to itself? Notice the proportions!

I can’t stop dancing around to Border Girl either:

Oh I grin every time when the beat comes back at 1:58.