Miserable folks

Troubled souls create beautiful music. I'm sure you all know Beth Gibbons, Damien Rice and Elliot Smith, they are (were in the case of suicidal elliot) miserable folks that I posted here so I might attract your attention (if you're here for them, then you fell into my trap, muahaha) towards underlooked artists like Micah P. Hinson, Mount Eerie, and Holopaw. I'm not going to go too much into details but I highly recommend you to hear these 3 artists that released records last year that went under my radar, I truly regret it now and I'm very dissapointed at our readers..., why are you not telling me about these great artists? You know what? I'm not posting again until someone recommends me some good music via the comments. I'm serious.

Well, I'd like to tell you about Micah P. Hinson because his story it's too interesting to leave it out; Micah was raised in a fundamentalist Christian household, at the age 19 he met the widow of a notable rockstar (?), a former Vogue cover model. This woman was also his downfall. Hinson started living the very bohemian life full of drugs and alcohol abuse. He was later arrested for forging prescriptions. At only 19 he was homeless and broke. He started working on a telemarketing job and in the meanwhile he started writing songs. After having enough material he teamed up with some friends and recorded "and the gospel of progress". He was 22 when he finally released this album. It makes me sad and humbled to think that I am 20 and I haven't advanced a bit in the ways Mr. Hinson did.

I'm also posting a song from "drums not dead", the new Lp from the Liars which will see the day of light any time soon... surprisingly (or maybe not that much) the song "the other side of mt. heart attack" is calm and sad, not the type of tune you'd expect from this usually hyperactive NYC band. I'm a bit excited about "the liars" so expect me annoying you later with a full post about them.

Damien Rice - cheers darlin'
Elliot Smith - between the bars
Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man - mysteries
Holopaw - holiday
Micah P. Hinson - stand in my way
Mount Eerie - stop singing
Liars - the other side of mt. heart attack

Image by the very talented photographer, Jan Saudek.