The Book Of Coincidences

Sintra, Portugal. Songs and views.

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Saturday, February 24, 2024

The Durutti Column - the missing boy live, 1984

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"Reilly is incredibly softly spoken. Despite my efforts to catch every word, sometimes the gentle gusts of wind whisk them away. At t...

Death Cab For Cutie - binary sea, 2015

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"Binary Sea in the end is about trying to swim in a "binary sea" of an ever-changing world and about preserving memories....

Lee Scratch Perry - scratch the dub organizer, 1981

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"When the stones clash, I hear like the thunder clash... and I hear words... These words send me to Kingston. Kingston means King...

John Murry - the ballad of the pajama kid, 2012

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"There is more than a touch of Cave's brooding darkness about Murry, whose rumbling voice and preoccupation with mortality place ...

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - talking straight, 2018

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“The concept came about when I heard someone talking about the possibility of us, humans, being alone in the universe, and how sad that wo...

Lee Scratch Perry - autobiography of the upsetter, 2019

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"As well as his music, he was known for his eternally youthful and chaotic dress sense, and his mythical statements about himself. “I...

The Four Tops - reach out i'll be there, 1966

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"Make sure your taxes are taken care of – because we're going to release the biggest record you've ever had."

Beach Novels - home movie, 2024

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"The tune first enters your ears with the otherworldly sounds of an oscillating synth, effectively setting an ethereal tempo. Like ex...

Bad Lieutenant - sink or swim, 2009

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"On 11 March 2011, the group announced that they would be headlining Friends of Mine Festival at Capesthorne Hall on Friday 20 May al...
Friday, February 23, 2024

Beirut - the rip tide, 2011

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"During a quiet moment at the beach between shows, a rip tide took me out pretty far — I was struggling to get back in"

Scott Matthews - cinnamon, 2018

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"The pain and self revelations that he captures in this single are shared in an incredibly beautiful way with the audience, and the f...

Isobel Campbell - four three one six, 2024

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"Isobel Campbell was partly responsible for many of the best moments on early Belle And Sebastian records. She left that band in 2002...

Real Estate - somebody new, 2024

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"The first four songs are absolute vintage RE, with sunny melodies and intricate, polished guitar lines. The lyrics are whimsical (...

Simon And Garfunkel - america, 1968

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"Many other empty, aching, and lost souls are on the highway, each on their own journey alone even if someone is traveling with them....
Thursday, February 22, 2024

Fleet Foxes - in the morning solstice version cover live, 2021

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"Despite its billing – “a very lonely solstice” – this live stream doesn’t start lonely at all. Dressed all in white, a masked, socia...

Mike Oldfield - moonlight shadow, 1983

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"It was originally inspired by a film I loved – Houdini, starring Tony Curtis, which was about attempts to contact Houdini after he...

Khruangbin - may ninth, 2024

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"a funky short story about the circle of life and the interconnectedness of all things"

Bear's Den - hiding bottles, 2019

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"Lead singer Andrew Davie spent time at Al-Anon meetings following experiences of addiction within his own family, and needed to spea...

Neil Young And Crazy Horse - broken circle over and over, 2024

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"In the spirit it’s offered, we made this for the Horse lovers. I can’t stop it. The Horse is runnin’. What a ride we have. I don’t w...
Wednesday, February 21, 2024

Robert Wyatt - the age of self, 1985

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  "the targets he has chosen are slippery, ambiguous ones; the treacherous duplicity of political language, the lies that democracy d...
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