24
Jul
getting what you want can break your heart
(or: july 24’s honey from the hive)
posted at 10:47 am by brandon in sweet you rock and sweet you roll
Matt Nathanson — “Kinks Shirt”
(from Last of the Great Pretenders
The never-boring Nathanson gets more friskily ambitious with rhythm and percussion (read: more James Brown, less James Taylor) on his eighth career record, a lilting love letter to racing after romance in the City by the Bay. Listening to this, you just know the boy’s gonna get his heart stomped by the flaky gal in the thrift-store threads, and he’s gonna love every last second of it.
