Same Old :: Brad Walsh

Same Old

I’ve had the newest Animal Collective album Feels for a while but didn’t listen to it until yesterday. It’s almost a year old. As usual, there are a few that I will never listen to again, but I’m in love with the first two tracks and the fourth. I also have a few songs off the new Patrick Wolf album. The single bores me, which is sad, because he’s one of my favorites. There’s another one that’s interesting, but overall these don’t impress me as much as Wind in the Wires did. Maybe they’ll grow on me more, or maybe nothing could live up to it being in my top five favorite albums ever, like Mary Timony’s Ex Hex. The Golden Dove was so meaningful to me and I got to know those songs so well that when Ex Hex came out I was disappointed. All the songs on it are just as good, but I had built it up too much before it came out. “I Fire Myself,” from her first solo album, might be my favorite song ever recorded. I think I write this twice a year.