Tunes

Favourite things are really easy to write about.  Hey look, music!  Bands!  Yeahhh!  Here are a few of my favourites:

The Decemberists are probably my favourite band.  A lot of my favourite songs are by bands that aren't The Decemberists, but I think they probably have the highest percentage of songs that I really like and one of the lowest of songs I don't like.  My favourite of their albums are The Crane Wife and The Hazards of Love, and I really can't choose between the two because they're such completely different things that it isn't even fair to compare them.

The Weepies are also really great.  Like the Decemberists, they have a very high percentage of songs that I like.  For some reason I tend to listen to them when I'm sad, even though there music isn't necessarily sad, but that just seems to be the way it works out.  I guess it's fitting, though, given their name!  I especially love their first full album, Say I am You, and their mos recent one, Be My Thrill.


Ingrid Michaelson has a very very beautiful voice and I absolutely love her music and there's really not much more to say about her than that.


Great Lake Swimmers have been amongst my favourites for a long, long time.  They came to Halifax last fall and I didn't get to see them because they sold out too fast and I was pretty much devastated.  They are super-duper mellow and their music is really good for quiet sleepy cold winter indoor days.


The Trews are a fairly local band, although they've made a name for themselves at least in Canada.  They were on Radio Free Roscoe once if any of you ever watched that show :P  They're the kind of band that just reminds me of friends and home and happy times and I always get really nostalgic if I listen to them too much.


Hey Ocean! are my new favourite band.  They're from Vancouver and I just saw them play in Halifax on Canada Day.  The lead singer's voice is amazing and their songs are just so catchy and I love their lyrics.  Plus they looked like they were having so much fun on stage that it was hard not to like them.