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"I hope that the art of songwriting comes back. Right now it’s all about production. A lot of bands today are made up of producers that know how to manipulate sound, but can’t write a song to save their life. Side-chain compression takes precedence over interesting harmony. I don’t care if you have a beautiful reverb sound that you achieved by revamping your voice in a silo, or you made a wonky beat in Ableton using samples of your friend taking a dump. If there isn’t a song in there that takes chances melodically, harmonically, or structurally, then I can’t even hear it."

Ryan Power, http://www.tinymixtapes.com/features/ryan-power

Love this guy, “The Prize” is totally killing me right now. I can’t wait for the new album.

ostberlintamere:

TRAVEL KYOTO - Dead End Town

En provenance de Portland, la pop électronique et délicieusement nostalgique de Travel Kyoto. Sa musique qu’il qualifie de Kitsh-wave, nous avait déjà séduit il y a un an avec le morceau “Tropical Eyes”.

SOUNDCLOUD BANDCAMP

Merci!

(Source: palmandlaser)

I don’t usually write songs about my real life or my feelings, but this one totally is…

While we’re on the subject of influences and inspirations, I really can’t emphasize enough that Orange Cake Mix is to Travel Kyoto what R. Stevie Moore is to Ariel Pink.

Today Burt Bacharach, one of my favorite songwriters, is 85 years old. Watching him as he puts together this entire song in his head always makes me feel like I’ll always just be an amateur by comparison.

(Source: flight-time)