updateish

Listening mostly to older things like The National and BSS, and some instrumental stuff like Sigur Rós. My roommate and I are going to share music, so I put a lot of cool stuff on a hard drive. I think his stuff is also pretty cool, though the stuff we listen to is pretty exclusive.
So I added:
Okkervil River
Animal Collective
Beulah
BSS
Handsome Furs
Metric
PTM
Of Montreal
Neutral Milk Hotel
Stars
The National
Wolf Parade
Sigur Rós

If anyone thinks of anything I should add feel free to add suggestions

handsome furs

Yes, uncreative title this time. I'll make up for it by posting pictures. But yeah, this post is about Handsome Furs, which is great. The act is associated with Wolf Parade, connected by Dan Boeckner, guitarist/vocalist in Wolf Parade and basically the same in Handsome Furs, though supported by his wife. Boeckner is the one with the lower and grittier (I think) voice in Wolf Parade, doing the vocals about half the time.

I think Handsome Furs is a good associated act for Boeckner, since he can sing for the whole album instead of just half, and he has quite a distinct voice. The general feeling of Plague Park (the album) is similar to Wolf Parade material, though I think there are a bit less vocals in Plague Park. It's also possibly a bit more sparse and electronic, though that's definitely up for interpretation.

massive update.

So I haven't posted in a while because I've been sorta (not really) busy, but I've been listening to some new stuff from Amie Street, mostly indie - ish things. The Double, which is pretty obscure, has some decent songs, and is compared to Wolf Parade and Animal Collective on last.fm, an interesting combination. I've also listened to some art rock by Oceansize, and it's a refreshing change, though I probably won't get very into it. While I can listen to and even like different genres for brief periods, I usually can't listen to them for extended periods.

Anyways the coolest thing I've been listening to is Sigur Rós, yet another Icelandic band that's similar to Múm. They have a very soothing effect, and Sigur Rós describes themselves as "slow motion rock", a fitting label. Not only are they Icelandic (and automatically cool), but they also sing in "Hopelandic" sometimes, which is from what I gather a fictional language. How fucking cool is that? If you're interested a good song is Hoppípolla (jumping into puddles), and it's even been covered by We Are Scientists, who are very unlike Sigur Rós.