Your Heart Felt Good

Modest Mouse - 3rd Planet (zShare)

I never really understood this song until yesterday. This is the album (The Moon and Antarctica) that first introduced me to Modest Mouse, and while I liked it as a whole (and 3rd Planet in particular), I thought it felt, at times, too deliberately obtuse, or difficult, or dense. That one line, though, the one that everyone'll remember and sing along to - "I've got this thing that I consider my only art of fucking people over" - it struck me as being amazingly true. Sometimes things don't work despite best intentions and all you're left with is nothing. But, is spite of that... "Your heart felt good."



Bloc Party - Storm and Stress (zShare)

An early Bloc Party track, taken from the Japanese Little Thoughts EP (also released as the b-side to the Little Thoughts 7" single). A bit romantic, a bit teenaged (as the title implies). Promise you'll say if it gets / Promise you'll say if it gets too much. At it's heart it's a love song, simultaneously about how being in love can overcome obstacles while those same obstacles are what make it all worthwhile. You're the life of the party, you make my world spin around.


Bloc Party's new album, Intimacy, is out tomorrow.


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