I choose light

 

The words we say today, we'll say

And we'll see them again, we'll see them again

So I choose my words so carefully

Like the sun, make it glow, or they glare at me

Well, I choose light

Light that won't

Keep me up at night

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I am in love! I want so bad to be at Coachella now. There's a certain quality in their music that speaks of honesty and light and summer; it shines so evidently, even in the depths of a dark Brooklyn apartment. 

It frustrates me sometimes that I live here. I know I should be grateful to; there are so many reasons to be thankful for Singapore. But just by being here, I will never experience the secret pleasure of being at a clandestine underground gig, or feel the surge of thousands of people at a music festival become one, in the space of a song. 

The complete set-list 

hosted by La Blogotheque / The Switch

Saw You First

Atlantic 

Meantime

Up Up Up

Wandering 

Lonely hearts bear lonely beats

Another take-away show special by the lovely Priscilla Ahn.

A take away show

Phoenix's music, along with the French music site La Blogotheque pretty much got me through last week's hell. The Eiffel tower, the back of an open-aired bus, the echoes under a bridge... Paris is where everyone wants to be.

La Blogotheque hosts The Takeaway Show, a simple concept which entails following indie English acts such as the Kooks or Bloc Party, far flung American-based bands such as Vampire Weekend and home bred (and internationally well-known) groups like Phoenix, for as long as a whole day. And this doesn't only happen in Paris; The Takeaway Show brings it's thousands of subscribers to San Francisco CA for a day to catch Lykke Li belt out 'Somebody's baby' with El Perro Del Mar, or as far as Bamako (Mali) to see Sidi Touré walk through the streets of Western Africa with his acoustic guitar. Postmark-international, indeed.

It's a simple yet beautiful idea, which showcases artistes in the most ordinary of places, capturing them in all their spontaneous glory. Acoustic sets, percussion on elevator walls combined with beautiful Parisian scenery is hard to beat. Especially when it's Phoenix :)


You can watch part 1 and part 2 of Phoenix's Paris Sojourn here.