Average April

Holy cow, another month gone by... As you can see from the title of this month's playlist, this month has actually been pretty normal. Ups and downs, ins and outs, turns and... yeah, you get the point. However, I'm really impressed with the music I've been finding lately (only because I do an ungodly amount of digging and searching). When am I not, though? I guess that makes this month even more normal...

First up, I'll talk a little on some music that I've been bumpin' all month long, and ironically, it's really not that average. It's very different than what I was expecting, actually. Even though Mac Miller's newest mixtape, Macadelic, was released a little over a month ago, I've now had enough time to form a few opinions about it. First off, I like it. Some of the songs really vibe an old school hip hop sound, which I really dig. Second, like I mentioned before, it's definitely not what I was expecting. Why? The drug use/references in this album are uncountable... I mean, yeah he's a young hip hop artist, they all rap about b!tches and rollin' on pills, right? But comparing this new album to previous works such as Blue Slide Park or Best Day Ever (I'm thinking songs like Wear My Hat, Life Ain't Easy, Love Lost), it seems he's really into the drug scene right now. Furthermore, when he's not talking about drugs, the rest of his lyrics are pretty gritty and nasty... but of course, he won't lose any support from the female percentage of his audience by rapping about all those nasty things. Girls go ape sh!t over this dude, I mean, look at that face! Still makes for good music, though, so I'm not complaining. ...Especially when it's FREE.

Next, I'll just get right down to business. Here's my full April playlist, from which I've extracted my most listened to and liked songs and turned into an 8tracks Mix, which is below this list. Check it.

Loud (Prod. Id Labs)	Mac Miller
Aliens Fighting Robots (feat. Sir Michael Rocks) (Prod. Brandun Deshay)	Mac Miller
Vitamins (Prod. Id Labs)	Mac Miller
Fight The Feeling (feat. Kendrick Lamar & Iman Omari) (Prod. Iman Omari)	Mac Miller
Lucky Ass Bitch (feat. Juicy J) (Prod. Lex Luger)	Mac Miller
The Mourning After (Prod. Two Fresh)	Mac Miller
Sunlight (feat. Iman Omari) (Prod. Teddy Roxpin)	Mac Miller
White Blank Page	Mumford & Sons
I Gave You All	Mumford & Sons
Little Lion Man	Mumford & Sons
Timshel	Mumford & Sons
Awake My Soul	Mumford & Sons
Dust Bowl Dance	Mumford & Sons
After the Storm	Mumford & Sons
She	Tyler The Creator ft Frank Ocean
Cocaine (No Big Deal Remix)	Eric Clapton
We Don't Eat (Adventure Club Dubstep Remix)	James Vincent McMorrow
Sunlight (Adventure Club Dubstep Remix)	Diana Vickers
Youth (Adventure Club Dubstep Remix)	Foxes
Colours (DJ 21azy)	Skizzy Mars ft. Biggie Smalls
Secure (Amtrac Remix)	The Photographic
Futile Devices (Shigeto Remix)	Sufjan Stevens
Innocence lost	Skypivot
Good To You (Original Mix)	Claptone
Sleepyhead (Borgore Remix)	Passion Pit
Frayed	Hermitude
Call Me Greyhound (Kap Slap Bootleg)	Swedish House Mafia ft. Carly Rae Jepsen
I Think I Like U 2 (Breakbot Remix)	Jamaica
Heart Vacancy (DJs From Mars Club Mix)	The Wanted
I Gotcha (Lupe Fiasco x Jack Johnson)	Surface to Air Missile
Electric Feel (Cover)	Connor Zwetsch
Need Your Love (feat. Ray Dalton)	Sol
Tongue Tied
What Am I Doing Here? (Part 1) (Aylen Remix)	Chicane
Hold On Lil Girl	Styles & Complete
So Hard To Breathe	B.o.B
Dazed & Confused (Remix)	Kinetics & One Love
Ray Bans	B.o.B.
Lemonade (Ft. Yelawolf, Dirt Nasty, Johnny Polygon)	Cisco Adler
Fuck Me Baby (Call Me Maybe Remix)	Huey Mack
Flexin’ On ‘Em	Meek Mill
City Lights	Sun City
#$ex	Neako

So, there it is. But which of these are really REALLY worth listening to? Here's my opinion of what's worthy of your time, so listen away. I've included the following songs in this 8tracks Mix, however, they are not in this actual order:

Average April from lyssarose11 on 8tracks.

Vitamins (Prod. Id Labs)	Mac Miller
Fight The Feeling (feat. Kendrick Lamar & Iman Omari) (Prod. Iman Omari)	Mac Miller
Lucky Ass Bitch (feat. Juicy J) (Prod. Lex Luger)	Mac Miller
The Mourning After (Prod. Two Fresh)	Mac Miller
Sunlight (feat. Iman Omari) (Prod. Teddy Roxpin)	Mac Miller
Timshel	Mumford & Sons
She	Tyler The Creator ft Frank Ocean
Colours (DJ 21azy)	Skizzy Mars ft. Biggie Smalls
Heart Vacancy (DJs From Mars Club Mix)	The Wanted
I Gotcha (Lupe Fiasco x Jack Johnson)	Surface to Air Missile
Need Your Love (feat. Ray Dalton)	Sol
What Am I Doing Here? (Part 1) (Aylen Remix)	Chicane
Hold On Lil Girl	Styles & Complete
So Hard To Breathe	B.o.B
Dazed & Confused (Remix)	Kinetics & One Love
Ray Bans	B.o.B.
Lemonade (Ft. Yelawolf, Dirt Nasty, Johnny Polygon)	Cisco Adler
Fuck Me Baby (Call Me Maybe Remix)	Huey Mack
City Lights	Sun City
#$ex	Neako

Hopefully you're jammin' out by now, right? Here's a few more sounds I've discovered more recently that I've been grooving to, these are a little more relaxed.

You Will Overcome

Dec 20, 2009

As much as I would really just love to leave it at that, making this a Wordless Wednesday post, I can't. I just need to say a few things.

I am not the same person I was three years ago. I look back on certain aspects of my life, and I don't even recognize it. It's like looking into someone else's private life- I feel estranged, alienated, detached from almost every angle.

The day I took this photo, I should've seen it as more than just a pretty picture. I should've looked at this and seen it for what it really was. I believe in signs, and that there are signs everywhere you go. But how do you recognize them right then and there? How do you know it's a sign?

When I took this picture, I should've said to myself:

That sun in the distance is your future. It is bright and beautiful and warm, and so much more than the white, dry cold of the present. Let go of the cold present, follow those rays of light shining through, and you will find your warm future. Why? Because it is so much better. You'll look back on this day, this time, and this photo, and you will laugh. You'll tell yourself you were a child. You'll tell yourself that you should've died from the stress you caused yourself, and you wasted time on things that did not deserve your time. You loved things that did not deserve your love. You thought about things that did not help you in your times of need, and anger, and distress. Yes, everything happens for a reason, and every second of every day is a learning experience. This moment you see in front of you, this glowing ray of hope in the distance, will be heartbreaking to you because in due time, you will grow and change in ways you never thought possible. You will become stronger and better and joyful. You can't ever change your past, but you can always change your future; you will overcome.

Get Up - Carousel by KineticMuzik

Make the sea turn turtle...

I swear, you'll be jamming to this song all day long. Just listen to it once. Brush your teeth to it. Drive to the grocery store to it. Listen to it in the grocery store. Just do it.

Sunday Girl - Love U More (RAC Mix) by Sunday Girl

To download, click here.

This is her original version of Love U More.

She only has 434 followers on Soundcloud, myself included. That is not enough. Listen to her original tracks, be blown away. It's as simple as that.

I. Love. This. Album.

Last night I downloaded about seven new albums worth of music. I woke up this morning and decided to start listening to all of it. I'm only on the second album I downloaded, but I HAVE to share this. I'm so amazed.
I don't normally go out and look for music in the "ambient electronic" genre, but I don't mind listening to it if it's interesting and makes me feel something. And damn, this morning, I'm feeling it.

Introducing Tycho.

Tycho - Hours [Dive LP - Nov. 2011] by Tycho

Here's a little example of what to look forward to when the album comes out later this month. I don't know a lot about Tycho, it's kind of hard to find any sort of biography other than what's on Facebook. But Tycho is made up of Scott Hansen, a graphic artist from San Francisco, who apparently decided he also needed a music project on the side. This guy's sound is genius. One look at his artwork will give you an idea of what his sound is like. Everything you feel when you look at Hansen's art is echoed perfectly by every track of the album. Although some songs have a much more prominent beat than others, giving them almost a pop-like sound, I think any actual lyrics over these tracks would take too much from the way the songs allow a listener to form their own opinions and own feelings within the music.
I'm giving this album five stars, and I'll definitely be keeping Tycho under close watch in the future.
Click for Scott Hansen's Facebook, Twitter, and Website.