Legend Lyrics: Stornoway - Fuel Up

When the morning broke and the sky fell down

It went black as night and the wind blew round

And stole your directions, you lost your way home

And you felt like a passenger left by the road

But I'll tell you the reason you couldn't get home

Cause there's nowhere you've been 

And it's nowhere you're going

Home is only a feeling you get in your mind

From the people you love & you travel beside

Blast From The Past: Destiny's Child

Destiny's Child - Say My Name (Cyril Hahn Remix)

Destiny's Child really are survivors if people are still mixing their tracks.

December's Playlist

A quick list of listenable tracks from December. Nothing festive.

Underground Music

This tube map, gives a rather ropey guide of music genres and artists. 

Although I'm not sure how close Kanye West is to Portishead...

Buy the poster here: http://www.ltmuseumshop.co.uk/exclusive-and-vintage/posters/product/music-on-the-tube-map.html .

Cover - Ben Howard: Figure 8

BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge gave Ben Howard a chance to show he can take any song, even the most recent tracks, and give them his strum.

Figure 8, originally by Ellie Goulding proves Ben Howard can take anything from scratch and keep your head up with it.

November's Playlist

Thursday Amble: The Submarines - 1940

A song to get you through Thursday, which is almost Friday, which is almost the weekend.

SeE ThInGS DIfFeREntLy

Last Month's Playlist

Here's last month's playlist to share!

Give it a shuffle, and enjoy.

Duet Cassette: Bastille & Gabrielle Aplin

After an array of unique covers, Bastille have teamed up with the innocent sound of Gabrielle Aplin for their latest spectrum to hit perfection:

Haunting Hibernation: Youth Lagoon

Hidden beneath a dusty dredge of emotion and blanketed under a leafy layer of mental dysphoria is Youth Lagoon, AKA Trevor Powers. The Californian musician released his debut album The Year of Hibernation in September 2011, and for me, it has taken a long cold year for Powers to come out of hibernation and find me.

Described as 'dream pop', 'experimental', 'atmospheric' and 'electronic', Powers' music is certainly eclectic; but there is something engaging about it, which makes Youth Lagoon stand out among others still sleeping in this genre. 

While complex euphoric music is no new feat, with different genres of euphoria emerging, The Year of Hibernation is a leafy mix of day dreaming, scenic songs, clever touches and beautiful lyrics that still make sense when you aren't listening to the words. It is easy listening music making you feel 'deep' inside. The digital chords, synthesized vocals, hollow beginnings, and progressive arrangements make the whole record a magical journey.

In fact, the more you listen, the more you get the impression that Powers himself has been on a journey through this record. 

'When I was seventeen, 

my mother said to me, 

"Don't stop imagining. 

The day that you do is the day that you die".

(From Seventeen)

His words are sometimes all over the places, and even a little whiney and repetitive, but at the heart of them is a world of stories. They are meaningful, even if you're not sure about their exact meaning. 

You wore a hoodless sweatshirt on your bed that night 

With black leggings, I've never seen your face so white

Your honesty was killing me 

The monsters in the room were all dancing to the music all around us

(From Montana)

Perhaps it is the sense that Powers himself has delved and explored deep into personal wounds, battles and emotions, that makes The Year of Hibernation come to life. It doesn't just feel like you are waking up the youthful hipster in yourself, but it feels like you are part of a very personal, very large following. Despite others being awoken to Youth Lagoon before me, I still feel a magical privacy with the music.