I think it’s time to get back to this blogging thingy and update frequently during the next two months. There’s a few dozen amazing 2015 releases and songs that I haven’t mentioned or posted and that’s just not right. Let’s kick of with some of my current favourite songs. Ok, the favourite song is still Fuck The Government, I Love You, but these aren’t far behind.

I wrote a bit of a preview about Steven Lambke’s album Days Of Heaven earlier in the week. Now the album is out and available and it’s indeed magnificent. I can understand if it isn’t everyone’s cup of capuccino. Steven isn’t the greatest singer in the world and the songs are really short and fragile. I don’t have any complaints though. I do love this wholeheartedly. Perhaps Barna will keep that #1 spot, but a top 10 should be guaranteed. This is something similar to me as was The Shapes That Kiss The Lips Of God by J.E.Sunde. Not that they sound similar, but they managed to capture something insecure and fragile and turn it into something stronger than the character Jaws. This one below is the key moment of the record for me. A song called Memory Forever. It’s simple, but it touches me deeply. That moment where he sings “strong enough to love / strong enough to be loved / to listen close to love / and hear love” is probably my favourite moment of any song this year.

Steven Lambke at Facebook

This one is actually from 2012, but I want to repost this, because I still return to this song on almost on a weekly basis. I’m not sure is Austin Craig still making music, but I sure hope so, because this whole A Country Dark EP is amazing. Sure it’s indeed very dark and almost uncomfortable to listen to. I don’t mind though. In a way sad songs are the foundation my happiness is built on and this whole heart might break if I took them away. This the amazing title track of Austin Craig’s 2012 EP A Country Dark.

Austin Craig Website

Back to the finest of 2015. Andrew Bryant’s This is The Life came out early in the year and has been on heavy rotation throughout the year. The album is finally available on Bandcamp as well and I have to use this opportunity to share one of my favourite songs of the year. Sure there are plenty of other great ones on the album as well, but this is the one I love the most. Such a perfect song. My Own Saving Grace by Andrew Bryant.

Andrew Bryant Website

File under: the best song in the world right now and a song worthy of a blog comeback. I really fell in love with this one last weekend and listened to it over and over again. I didn’t really plan on ending my blog hiatus this week, but this is just too good not to post. So if you missed One Chord To Another, you can thank these lovely people for getting it back on track. They are Ariel Sharratt & Mathias Kom from The Burning Hell and their duo album called Don’t Believe The Hyperreal will come out on the 27th of November. It will be released by BB*Island (Europe) / Headless Owl (Canada).

The past year has been a year of The Burning Hell for me. Perhaps in more ways than one, but let’s leave the health concerns aside for a second and focus on the brighter part of The Burning Hell. The songwriter Mathias Kom is my own happiness guide. There are lines in his songs that make me so ridiculously happy that perhaps one day I can say that the lines in my face did come from smiling. The first outtake Fuck The Government, I Love You from the forthcoming duo album is once again an injection of happiness. Co-workers probably think I’m finally loosing it, because all week long I’ve been packing potatoes while singing along loudly the words “pass the wine, fuck the government, I love you too”. Thanks Ariel & Mathias. I love you too.

And some old The Burning Hell classics.

The Burning Hell Website