Fall is by far my favorite season. There’s something so nostalgic about the smell of dying plants (sounds creepy but you know it’s true) and every year I inevitably dig myself into the same hole of listening to the same handful of bands on repeat. There’s a simplicity about this time of year, even as we are hurled into the maddening blackhole that is holiday season. Fall as a season brings about a certain melancholia I find myself sinking into each year that’s only heightened by these acoustic-picked melodies. This time of year I really only want to listen to simple tunes that tell a story. Really, if it doesn’t make me slightly sad but in a good way or it’s not Born Ruffians chances are I don’t want to hear it. It makes sense when you don’t think about it. Check out the choons after the jump. I hope you don’t get caught in the same vortex as me.
1.The Head and the Heart – Sounds Like Hallelujah
[audio:https://controlaltdelight.com/album%20reviews/Fall%20Essentials/08%20Sounds%20Like%20Hallelujah.mp3]
2. The Head and the Heart – Winter Song
[audio:https://controlaltdelight.com/album%20reviews/Fall%20Essentials/07%20Winter%20Song.mp3]
3. The Head and the Heart – Coeur D’Alene
[audio:https://controlaltdelight.com/album%20reviews/Fall%20Essentials/02%20Coeur%20D%27Alene.mp3]
4. The Head and the Heart – Down In the Valley
[audio:https://controlaltdelight.com/album%20reviews/Fall%20Essentials/04%20Down%20in%20the%20Valley.mp3]
5. Radical Face – Always Gold
[audio:https://controlaltdelight.com/album%20reviews/Fall%20Essentials/10%20Always%20Gold.mp3]
6. Radical Face – Wrapped in Piano Strings
[audio:https://controlaltdelight.com/album%20reviews/Fall%20Essentials/Wrapped%20In%20Piano%20Strings.mp3]
7.. Blind Pilot – Things I Cannot Recall
[audio:https://controlaltdelight.com/album%20reviews/Fall%20Essentials/09%20Things%20I%20Cannot%20Recall.mp3]
8. Blind Pilot – Just One
[audio:https://controlaltdelight.com/album%20reviews/Fall%20Essentials/1-08%20Just%20One.mp3]
9. Blind Pilot – The Colored Night
[audio:https://controlaltdelight.com/album%20reviews/Fall%20Essentials/1-05%20The%20Colored%20Night.mp3]
10. Bowerbirds – In the Yard
[audio:https://controlaltdelight.com/album%20reviews/Fall%20Essentials/02%20In%20the%20Yard.mp3]
11. Bowerbirds – Overcome With Light
[audio:https://controlaltdelight.com/album%20reviews/Fall%20Essentials/02%20In%20the%20Yard.mp3]
12. Bowerbirds – Sweet Moment
[audio:https://controlaltdelight.com/album%20reviews/Fall%20Essentials/09%20Sweet%20Moment.mp3]
13. Born Ruffians – Foxes Mate For Life
[audio:https://controlaltdelight.com/album%20reviews/Fall%20Essentials/07%20Foxes%20Mate%20For%20Life.mp3]
14. Born Ruffians – Plinky Plonky
[audio:https://controlaltdelight.com/album%20reviews/Fall%20Essentials/01%20Plinky%20Plonky.mp3]
15. Born Ruffians – Kurt Vonnegut
[audio:https://controlaltdelight.com/album%20reviews/Fall%20Essentials/10%20Kurt%20Vonnegut.mp3]
