soundtracks for everday adventures

This is possibly my most favorite concept for an album. I've been listening nearly everyday to it online. "For this album we tried to make songs that could soundtrack all of the little things in your life feel like they are special parts of a film.Maybe not too dramatic parts, or intense parts, but just everyday magic kind of stuff."

Some of the tracks:

growing up,
going to buy some strawberries,
finding a leaf in your girlfriend's hair,
the best paper airplane ever,
checking things off of a to-do list early in the morning,
a picture of your grandparents when they were young,
listening to raindrops knocking on a window

listen to/buy here.

winter is blue - a christmas mixtape

Found this wonderful Christmas mixtape created by Andew & Carissa. As they wrote, it's to enjoy while doing "festive things- like playing games at the fireside, wrapping gifts and drinking hot cocoa, or taking long drives through the wintery landscape." You can download it here
 

songs by the following artists:
Vashti Bunyan - Sufjan Stevens - Múm - Mew - Andy Zipf - Feist - Sleeping at Last
Beach House - Cliff Lewis - Belle & Sebastian - Carpenters - Radiohead

golden delicious afternoon

yellow apples. october skies. 

"the purpose of coming to apple orchards isn't to pick apples, it's to be"

kisses. sunshine. family.

1. Comets by Cocoon // 2. Perpetuum Mobile by Penguin Cafe Orchestra

// 3. Emerald Isle by Whitehorse // 4. Sweet Ones Cover // 5. La vie en Rose by Edith Piaf

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how to: mail someone a garden

Okay, well, this isn't a diy project,

but still a clever idea!

+ postgarden +

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A music mix

+listen+

album art

Some of my favs....what are yours?

things that have kept me happy today...

1. listening to a favorite song being sung a cappella in a Parisian hallway 

(oh, Bon Iver...you make life so much better)

2. gazing upon photos at the blue hour

3. this quote

4. thinking about autumn sweaters.

mmmm....Beirut!

I have an on-going love affair with Beirut.

Zach Condon's musical sweep is so fascinating, complex. It's like listening to life, like listening to places. 

I blame being so busy with getting married for why I was unawares of this album release.

Listen to it the album here.

(I am right this second! Thoughts so far: same flavor, but more refined)

This is the very, very first song I ever heard by Beirut: