john vanderslice’s new album (emerald city)
has leaked and it is this: awesome. i have listened to it many, many times in the past week and it gets better each time for realz. the record’s standout, “time to go” reminds me of what would happen if you mated that one awesome nelly furtado song (“say it right”) with lou barlow. srsly. the album is kind of sad but there are some glimmers of hope and it makes me wish i was friends with good old john and we could toss back a bunch of hipster lagers and talk about the state of the world with eachother.