Posts Tagged ‘Pacific Northwest’
Unwound Makes Perfect Songs For Winter
Unwound’s Leaves Turn Inside You (2001) is the absolute perfect album for winter. I spun it the other morning and it matches this first cold front just fine. Man, does Unwound have such perfect songs for this weather.
I don’t know why but I’ve been trying to match my music with the outside climate. I always do this. I’m big on the belief in saving old-timey for spring and summer, jazz in the winter, and reggae/dub basically for any group-house party. But winter is tricky.
It’s cold and brittle outside. The music should match that but not too much. You can only listen to so much Codeine in the winter months. The other day, on my morning walk to work, I tried out Unwound’s last album, a double LP they spent two years recording. Despite being seven years old, the record more than holds up. I find myself turning to it more now than I ever did when it first came out. (I found it buried in my car years later; it was beat up, but it still played). Playing the album the other day, it just made my miserable walk almost enjoyable.
Unwound deserves a more prominent spot in the Pacific Northwest canon. Give a listen to two clips and tell me they don’t hold up as well as Sleater-Kinney.
