Yesterday I started a post about (of all bands) Metallica. But, like Metallica, it became self-indulgent and out of control and pleasureless. Unlike Metallica, though, I was able to delete everything I wrote, leaving no evidence for our distant-future alien overlords to puzzle over when they get around to analyzing our historical records and Google caches.
So instead I'll serve up these nummy nuggets:
Denison Witmer's 2005 album Are You A Dreamer? is now available as a full free download at NoiseTrade. I've gushed about Witmer before, either here or on other blogs or aloud to myself in an empty room. He is easy to miss, unassuming in every way. But his music will cradle you gently while simultaneously conjuring up bittersweet imagery from vague memories. Denison Witmer is the teenage scrapbook you forgot all about.
As far as this download is concerned, Are You A Dreamer? is vintage Witmer. Mellow, acoustic, wistful, singersongwriter-rific. Four bonus tracks are thrown in there as well. Sufjan Stevens, if you're interested, does some vocal harmonizing and plays some accompanying banjos and recorders and wurlitzers and whatnot.
Recommended for people who like music. Not recommended for people who don't.
Elsewhere in free downloads of old music, Chris Staples has made available two forgotten tracks he recorded a twelve years ago, product of a brief side-project called Donkey And Deer. Actually, HE may have forgotten about them, but I've had those two tracks on one hard drive or another for those dozen years. I downloaded them from MP3.com back when MP3.com was awesome, and those two files have somehow survived cut-and-pastes and computer crashes and all those things that have systematically erased pre-2001 Internet.
Get those tracks at Chris Staples' bandcamp page.
Old friends of mine will recognize at least one of those two tracks because way back when I was a mixtape-burning fiend I would usually find a way to include either song. If you ask me for a CD full of whateversongs I would still probably stick a Donkey And Deer song on there.
Listen to "God Send A Bomb" if you'd like to be depressed out of your mind. I like this one best.
Listen to "You Should Be Living" for something a little more motivating.
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