Happy new year everyone! CIVL station manager Aaron Levy wishes a cooperative and fruitful 23 for all, kicked off by this list of tunes!
One of my — by now many — annual repeat shufflings, and this one is perhaps the most perennial of all such cyclical selections. Akron/Family recently lost founding member, Myles. In the aughts, however, their jaunty, tropical flavoured indie-rock jam stylings were a harbinger of the Vampire Weekends and the Alt-J’s.
Always felt like my vision been bigger than the bigger picture / Crazy how you gotta wait until it’s dark out to see who really with you / Crazy how even when it miss ya, shit’ll come back around and get ya / … I’m not even Christian, I still went to church that year
If you haven’t heard this twice before, maybe get yourself some ice, cuz this is spicy hot, like if His Airness had a finals series equivalent of NBA Jam’s on-fire shooting feature: 2023 is obviously, completely the year of Michael Jeffrey Jordan, Chicago’s 6-time unbeaten Larry O-B winner, who donned jersey #23.
This band from Toronto does not exist any more, like so many bands from so many different communities in so many different parts of the world who exist by working, writing, playing and recording for ages, sometimes producing excellent material, nearly never to be heard outside their immediate local spheres.
