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Listening to Mogwai Happy Songs for Happy People is a welcome bulwark against the rush of Spring-induced euphoria. Every year at this time—more so lately it seems—I’m caught in some muddy concoction of cabin fever and that flighty enthusiasm blue skies and warm breezes evoke. I begin longing for Otherness, an unbounded allowance to strap on a seat belt, a few cups of cheap coffee, and a thousand miles on back roads. Happy Songs for Happy People manages to at once strip away the deliciously ridiculous scope of some of those cravings, to soothe their fervor, and maintain the optimism of a Spring pregnant with new or rekindled probabilities.
I’m a sucker for a good percussive spectacle, and I just saw via the Mogwai “official information” link above that they’ve a new release with none other than Wil Calhoun on the sticks. I was quite the Living Colour fan for a long time, and have kept tabs on their production of material since sort of, almost, kind of disbanding a few years back. I’ve seen Mr. Calhoun at work a few times. I don’t purport “sucker” to mean “connoisseur”, but Wil’s got the goods. I’ll have to pick this new Rock Action disk.
What are you listening to?
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