A Julie Doiron Mini-Kick: Lost Wisdom + "So Fast"

Good album I'm enjoying today is Lost Wisdom (2008) by Mount Eerie with Julie Doiron and Fred Squire. It sounds similar to Thousands' The Sound of Everything (2011).

Below are tracks 8 and 9, "With My Hands Out" and "O My Heart":

I got going in this direction because of a Julie Doiron mini-kick I am on, motivated by a song I have always enjoyed from a compilation put out by Sub Pop, Spring Lineup - A Compilation Of Sub Pop's Heavy Hitters (1997). The song is called "So Fast," which Doiron recorded as Broken Girl. I heard it again after several years. What a song!

Doiron started recording as Broken Girl the same year, 1993, the Liz Phair's Exile in Guyville made such an enormous splash. And it sounds like she had been listening a lot to Young Marble Giants' Colossal Youth (1980).

The Sound of Everything

As I entered Interlaken Park on my run after work I noticed beneath the tall trees two young men sitting on camping furniture atop a horse blanket before a laptop computer; they each held a guitar and had microphones set up. I gave them a thumbs up and wondered if they were Thousands, the Seattle duo of Kristian Garrard and Luke Berman who, according to the biography on Amazon, "set up recording equipment in abandoned barns, forgotten silos, stairwells and state parks in the Pacific Northwest to achieve an organic sound. No Engineers, no advice." But I think these guys were too young to be them.

Thousands' sole release, The Sound of Everything (2011), is a great album. I downloaded it not too long after it came out, have played it many times and am looking forward to their next recording.