Song of the Day
I sat in the back of a cab on the way to work this morning with my headphones on. As I stared at the passing cars and church steeples off to the west, my ipod and thoughts turned to my favorite Ukranian Village rockstars1... The Aluminum Group. Aside from the odd cable television appearance last year, they've been rather off the chicago music scene lately. I think it was three years ago2 I last saw them play3 at the Old Town School of Folk Music.
So "We're Both Hiding" began on my ipod and I was lost in thought. The air of melancholy hung about me when I got out of the cab and went about my day. The song just stuck. This is often how things become my Song of the Day... seemingly random until much later in the day.
I got home tonight and discovered the first teaser from the new Aluminum Group album Little Happyness4 was actually released last week on a new comp from Minty Fresh. See... the Aluminum Group stuck with me today for a reason. Check the new song, it's called "Headphones". How perfect.
1 Used in the very loose sense of the phrase.
2 Or four years??
3 With the then unknown band The Changes as their backup. Oh and Rebecca Gates.
4 Granted we've been told for the past three years that this record is "forthcoming".
Buy some: Aluminum Group