Doncat - Western

premiere: Resistor - Dreamtigers

This is the solo bedroom synthpop project of Steve Goldberg who told me this song’s “title is from a short story by Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges: 

In my childhood I was a fervent worshiper of the tiger: not the jaguar, the spotted “tiger” of the Amazonian tangles and the isles of vegetation that float down the Paraná, but that striped, Asiatic, royal tiger, that can only be faced by a man of war, on a castle atop an elephant. I used to linger endlessly before one of the cages at the zoo; I judged vast encyclopedias and books of natural history by the splendor of their tigers. (I still remember those illustrations: I who cannot rightly recall the brow or the smile of a woman.) Childhood passed away, and the tigers and my passion for them grew old, but still they are in my dreams. At that submerged or chaotic level they keep prevailing. And so, as I sleep, some dream beguiles me, and suddenly I know I am dreaming. Then I think: this is a dream, a pure diversion of my will; and now that I have unlimited power, I am going to cause a tiger.

Oh, incompetence! Never can my dreams engender the wild beast I long for. The tiger indeed appears, but stuffed or flimsy, or with impure variations of shape, or of an implausible size, or all too fleeting, or with a touch of the dog or the bird.

Previously: “Cordless Phone”

DRINKS - Loying Down Rock

Male Gaze - Gale Maze

(hat tip The Styrofoam Drone)

Heron Oblivion - The Desert

My friend Andy passed me a brand new track from another friend of mine Meg Baird who recently moved from Philly out to the West Coast. Looks like she’s upped her own ante by rolling out a much heavier sound from what she typically played with a psychedelic folk energy. This is song is all blasting rock. And I love it. Can’t wait to hear more, Meg!