one of the most beautiful albums i’ve ever listened to. musical, romantic, introspective. lost completely in itself.
as though speaking or hearing someone speak directly from a tittering, irrational heart having an emotional release
Clum Laude! (2006)
completely different energetically than Elysium but musical, refreshing, and invigorating. The guitars and drums in this make so happy. 333 is a wild ride, as is much of the album, Spin The Wink also ranks up high with me as the band touches back in with their romantic side.
nou·veau /ˈno͞ovō,no͞oˈvō/: adjective, inf. new, modern, newly arrived, newly developed
Directly following ‘This is Me Now‘ comes ‘nouvaeu‘. I’m studying French again. When I was in third grade was when I first remember trying to learn. I took it again in middle school. I’ve always loved their music and culture. Movies like Amelie and Fantastic Planet were some of the first introductions to proper film making as a young adult after having an aversion to movie culture as a kid.
The romance inside of Je te lasserai des mots is palpable beyond the limits of the language barrier. You can feel the emotion in his call and behind the words.. whatever they may be.
ominous, haunting, sexy – I came across Taxi while watching ‘Whore’s Glory‘. A documentary on the the lives, needs, troubles, and hopes of prostitutes in Thailand, Bangladesh, and Mexico. The soundtrack also features CocoRosie
One October day in 2010 I decide to upload this to Youtube because I couldn’t find it anywhere else on the internet. I had also dug around and gathered some of the lyrics.
15 years later, on an YT account I’ve barely touched since my teenage days, it’s quiet picked up 15k views with dozens of thank you’s and even a of snobby-indie-music-sleuth side eye comment that I have yet to fully interpret. As they say, bad press is good press? I’m happy to till be listening, appreciating, and deciphering this song bit by bit years later.
Lyrics
The closest I've ever gotten to the lyrics:
you want a man full of more dangerous ways you're guarding your ground (?), that i'm sure of you're cutting your gold with grey and you're showing your pinkest parts in my absence and telling nine lies in the moonlight and you're showing your pinkest parts in my absence
you slip on the yoke like it was a cute top and drag a frozen lake full of fish and whatnot across a living bed of flowers and you leave it laying heavy on the bed of ours
do you see a cold floor in your future? or do you sleep soundly when the sheets are sour?
you wanted a man, i showed up and gave you a rib from my cage that rib went bad, you let 'em all rot replaced with tattooed snakes may your bones turn to rope and go limp inside you if you were burning me boy you'd get ice may your bones turn to rope and go limp inside you
you slip on the yoke like it was a cute top and drag a frozen lake full of fish and whatnot across a living bed of flowers and you leave it laying heavy on the bed of ours
i lit a match and watched it throw shadows while you grew a hell on the top of our kingdoms
and you are your father's daughter and i am (i am) no runner
study an affair and contemplate how a complicated train of events that ends in a final result of men's flesh becoming stairs