Little Daylight put up a great new track last week and it's a beautiful combination of more than enough different sounds (whatever the opposite of "minimal music" is). It reminds me of something T.S. Eliot once said: "Only those who risk having more than enough will ever know how much is enough." Actually he didn't really say that exactly, but that's how I remember something he definitely did say.  

To all those little too-muches that get us through the day:

Little Daylight - Overdose (download)

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photo: Ahn Jun

This past week, a meeting of the minds resulted in the homogeneous contention that 2012 (even 2011 for that matter) has been a bit lackluster - if not for a few pockets of venturing souls. The Shins' album was a let down, Best Coast didn't even try - Danger Mouse & Daniel Luppi's Heart was just as bland as the mouse's project with James Mercer. And while I like the Weeknd - there was a point where I thought James Blake and him were  going to fold in on each other. I was sure a Bon Iver collaboration was on the horizons for either or, or both. Ah, nevermind - apparently 1/2 of that came true already....

But just as the meeting was concluding, Frank Ocean's 'channel Orange' hit a week early. We sat listening at our own terminals - ingesting. Then someone spoke up about Dirty Projectors and the conversation developed into a focusing on those pockets. The songs below represent these cracks - where oils burn & cogs churn.