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Here’s a lit­tle Thursday-morning video zen for you.

I shot this video over the week­end when we had our first really spring-like day in Bal­ti­more. Looks like this week­end is going to top that.

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Tues­day, Bad Deci­sions in Fells Point hosted its third Bacon and Beer Happy Hour!

Look for cameos by Twit­ter super­stars @maryvale, @spamspam, @bad_decisions, @christianparent, and @amywoo!

Kudos to John and every­body else at Bad Deci­sions for putting on such a great event. I can’t wait for the next one, no mat­ter what my arter­ies say.

Update: I apol­o­gize if the video and audio are out of sync. It would appear that Vimeo is hav­ing some issues. The video worked fine on Fri­day, but the embed looks hideous today. I sug­gest check­ing out the video’s Vimeo page if you run into trouble.

Update 2: Looks like some­thing is wrong with the non-HD video encode. I’m try­ing to get in touch with some­one at Vimeo who can help me fix it.

Update 3: The kind folks at Vimeo re-encoded the video, so it should all be work­ing prop­erly now.

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I can always tell when it’s spring. Base­ball sea­son starts. The trees in my neigh­bor­hood start to bloom (and my aller­gies kick in). And amaz­ing music comes out more reg­u­larly, build­ing a future playlist for the warmer months ahead.

Doves — King­dom of Rust
I was first intro­duced to Doves with their album Some Cities. I was paint­ing fresh dry­wall on the ceil­ing of a room in a house where I lived at the time, and “Black and White Town” came on the radio. For what­ever rea­son, that song stuck with me through that spring and sum­mer, but was some­how retired from fre­quent rota­tion on my iPod as the weather got colder.

Now they’re back with a slightly darker-sounding album, wrapped in a healthy dose of reverb that sounds almost like it was bor­rowed from the 1960s in places. There are ele­ments of other UK-based bands on this Doves album, either a sign that artists the British music scene builds health­ily off each other, or that they’re con­stantly rip­ping each other off. From the song clips avail­able on iTunes and Ama­zon, I can’t quite fig­ure out which sign it is.

King­dom of Rust sounds like it could be the kind of album that you could eas­ily let wash over you as it plays in the back­ground while you open the win­dows and let spring air mean­der through your house while you take care of other chores. But if you took the time to really get into the music, it seems also like the kind of album that reveals some­thing new with each listen.

I really, really wish I had the spare cash to pick up this album today. Though it’ll have to wait, it’s at the top of my “Music to Buy” list.

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[Ama­zon link]

 

Bat for Lashes — Two Suns

The first Bat for Lashes song I heard was “Horse and I”, and it was one of those songs that made me pull over and write down the name of the artist so I could track down the album and song later. That album, Fur and Gold, was one of my favorites of 2007.

There’s a bit of an electro-pop sen­si­bil­ity to some of the tracks on Two Suns. At first, tracks like “Pearl’s Dream” and “Daniel” sound almost too pol­ished, but as you dig down past the sur­face, it’s obvi­ous that there’s a lot more going on with the song­writ­ing than slick production.

Two Suns paired with Doves’ King­dom of Rust would make an excel­lent sound­track for lying on a hill­side star­ing at clouds. I’ll have to test out this the­ory and report back.

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