The Pelican’s Perch

1. The Acorn – Hold Your Breath
   
2. Yeasayer – Sunrise
   
3. Jesca Hoop – Summertime
   
4. The Mabuses – Mirth
   
5. Matt Pond PA – Wild Girl
   
6. Sunset Rubdown – Up on Your Leopard, Upon Your Feral Days
   
7. The Golden Republic – Hemel Dalingen
   
8. Enon – Pigeneration
   
9. Frida Hyvonen – The Modern
   
10. Regina Spektor – Chemo Limo
    
11. The Acorn – Lullabye (Mountain)
    

We made it! Three years of blogging and 40 Perch Mixes down. Of course, I kind of just went at my own pace as far as posting Perch Mixes, but still, 40 Perch Mixes is a good milestone to get to. This Perch Mix is a little different feeling than most, mainly because of the random music I’ve been listening to lately that are a bit out of the norm for me. Yeasayer is a great new band I’m really into. The Acorn are all time favs and have further proven that fact with their latest release. We’ve got a strange one from Sunset Rubdown which is curiously captivating, a short number from Matt Pond PA, and one of my favorite heartbreakers in “Chemo Limo” not only because it reminds me a lot of riding around listening to Regina Spektor with Tiffany, but also because the lyrics about someone fighting cancer get me every time. I also couldn’t leave out Enon, whose latest release isn’t their best, but I still really like that band.

Enjoy the latest Perch Mix and here’s seeing you 10 Perch Mixes from now for the big five-O.

P.S. Joe and I are starting to record all the songs we’ve learned so far in demo form to teach our new band members. Here’s a more polished version of “10,000 Miles”. I don’t like the very end, kind of sloppy, but Joe had a date so we had to cut the session short and this was the result. We also got a very rough take done of “Nothing Like This”. The levels are all over the place, as are the filters, but you get the picture. Honest Artist is very close to being a real band with five members. I couldn’t be more excited.

10,000 Miles (New Demo)

Nothing Like This (barebones version)

Nothing Like This live at Your Mom Fest w/drums
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