Top Ten Albums of 2013 - #7
Half Moon Run's Dark Eyes
Editor's Note: This is the 4th in a quasi-weekly series of reviews marking my favorite ten albums of 2013. The 10th edition is wrapped into the larger year-end post I call "The Ho Media Awards", which will be published just after the new year. Stay tuned!
Instead of a random music blog or a truck commercial, I have a coworker to thank for turning me on to Half Moon Run. I did hear the first single, "Call Me in the Afternoon," the same way I hear most singles that first get my attention - standing at the urinal. After enough trips, I decided to look them up when I got back to my cubical. I mentioned out loud that I was looking up this song and as luck would have it, another guy had just bought the album and vouched for the whole thing.
Turns out he was right. It's hard to say why it's special. Maybe it's just that it's really pleasantly chill. "Chill" doesn't always work for an album that's released in the summer, but it definitely works here. Or maybe it's just my musical pendulum swinging back away from all of the recent folk bands. Maybe it's the fact that "Give Up" borrows a riff from a Radiohead song that I haven't been able to pick out yet.
Maybe it's solely based on "Nerve." "Nerve" isn't the song of the year, but it was a top three pick. I have no idea what's going on in the video here, but it would be worth it if it was three minutes and seventeen seconds of watching paint dry:
Album Highlights: Full Circle; She Wants to Know; Drug You; Nerve
Editor's Note: This is the 4th in a quasi-weekly series of reviews marking my favorite ten albums of 2013. The 10th edition is wrapped into the larger year-end post I call "The Ho Media Awards", which will be published just after the new year. Stay tuned!Instead of a random music blog or a truck commercial, I have a coworker to thank for turning me on to Half Moon Run. I did hear the first single, "Call Me in the Afternoon," the same way I hear most singles that first get my attention - standing at the urinal. After enough trips, I decided to look them up when I got back to my cubical. I mentioned out loud that I was looking up this song and as luck would have it, another guy had just bought the album and vouched for the whole thing.
Turns out he was right. It's hard to say why it's special. Maybe it's just that it's really pleasantly chill. "Chill" doesn't always work for an album that's released in the summer, but it definitely works here. Or maybe it's just my musical pendulum swinging back away from all of the recent folk bands. Maybe it's the fact that "Give Up" borrows a riff from a Radiohead song that I haven't been able to pick out yet.
Maybe it's solely based on "Nerve." "Nerve" isn't the song of the year, but it was a top three pick. I have no idea what's going on in the video here, but it would be worth it if it was three minutes and seventeen seconds of watching paint dry:
Album Highlights: Full Circle; She Wants to Know; Drug You; Nerve
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