Album Review: Little Machines

It's been a while since Lights has released music but her most recent album, Little Machines, is her best yet in my opinion. I love all of the songs, which pretty is rare for me. She has kept up her innocent tones with a new maturity, which is appropriate as the album release followed her daughters birth in February of this year, giving her new responsabilities. Her husband is a singer in his own band (Blessthefall) which means the two often have to travel separately for long periods of time while they are on their respective tours which has also been mirrored in her songs. Also, they are actually all clean! ... except I still can't figure out how I feel about the content of Muscle Memory. Let's just avoid that one for now and say the rest are perfectly ok.

I feel like I want to put all of the songs on here because I love them so much but I'm going to try and pick my favorites (it's like trying to pick a favorite child!).

(I'm also realizing it's hard to find the individual tracks on YouTube. If you want to just listen to the whole album, here is the link --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idCJqXOB5N0)

Running With The Boys

                                                                                                     

Oil and Water

                                                                                             

Up We Go
*by the way, there is a music video for this song but I would NOT recommend it.

                                                                                              

Lucky Ones
*bonus track on the Deluxe Version

                                                                                                 

From All Sides
*bonus track on the Deluxe Version

Made My Day

I would like to digress from music for a moment. I was watching videos on YouTube the other day (like most days) and found some videos that really made my day. Sometimes we forget how good people can be but these gave me hope and some made me tear up. I wanted to share a few with you.

 

 

Secret Angel Delivery

 

Reverse Pickpocketing

 

I read an article about this video and basically an autistic boy named Daniel loved to run outside to see the garbage truck come every day. One day, the man driving the garbage truck, Manuel, decided to give the little boy his very own toy garbage truck.

 

This is a video Target put out and I think it is just adorable.



The Secret of Babysitting

I was babysitting a few weeks ago and was having trouble getting all of the kids to get in bed and stay in bed. They all share a room so when one got up and started jumping around, the others felt like they needed to also. I remembered a song I had heard that I thought was perfect to fall asleep to so I told them that if they would all lay down in their beds and were quiet, I would play them a song. I found the song through an app I have on my phone called Sound Cloud so once they were quiet I pulled up the song on my phone and played it quietly so that if they wanted to heard it, they had to remain still and silent. This is the song I played. (By the way, the original versions of all of these songs are clean).

Honeybee (Music Box Edition)

by: Steam Powered Giraffe

                                                                                                  

After that was over, I just searched for piano covers of songs in the app and the first one I found that I was familiar with was this song. By the end of this song, two of the four kids I was babysitting had fallen asleep.

Latch (piano cover)

by: Disclosure

                                                                                                 

Next, I (accidently) clicked on this song (but what kid doesn't like Frozen?).

Let It Go (piano cover)

from: Frozen

                                                                                             

What I meant to click on was this song (which almost but me to sleep as well).

A Thousand Years

by: Christina Perry

This music is great to put kids to sleep, yourself to sleep, or even just give you a sense of peace. The piano is a beautiful instrument that is very relaxing to play and listen to.

Please share with your friends or anyone you think may need some peace or uplifting. That is my goal in making this blog; to help, encourage, and uplift others through music.

Thank you! I will try super hard to post more on this blog (and my modesty blog as well).
:)

In a Fairy Tale

Just some songs about the different stages of falling in (or out of) love.

Oh Hush
by: My Genuine Find

                                                                                             

White Horse

by: Taylor Swift

                                                                                              

Feels Like Yesterday
by: American Authors

                                                                                          

My Kind of Perfect

by: David Archuleta

                                                                                          

Skip to the Good Part

by: He Is We

 

                                                                                        

Holding Out for a Hero

by: Frou Frou (originally by Bonnie Tyler)

                                                                                            

Over You

by: Daughtry

Mothers Day, Part 2

The second artist I wanted to spotlight who recently became a mother is Evynne Hollens. Ashland James Hollens was born to Peter and Evynne Hollens on March 31 (I believe). Here are some adorable pictures of the three of them. Photo credits: Peter Hollens' Facebook.

 

 

Awwwww. Now lets hear some of Evynne's music.

Defying Gravity (from Wicked)

                                                                                               

Les Miserables Medley

                                                                                             

Fields of Gold

Mothers Day, Part 1

In honor of Mothers Day tomorrow, I want to spotlight two artists who recently became mothers. The first is Lights. Baby Rocket was born on February 15th. Here are some pictures of the new family. Photo credits: Lights' Facebook.

     

    

Ok, enough pictures. Back to the music.

Toes

                                                                                               

Second Go

                                                                                           

Lions

                                                                                            

Frame and Focus

                                                                                             

Drive My Soul

                                                                                            

Siberia

Just Dance

I was part of a group that planned a pajama dance a few weeks ago and I decided to make a playlist to give to the DJ. I wanted to post some of the songs here to prove that there are plenty of upbeat songs you can dance to that are clean.



Love Like Woe

by: The Ready Set

                                                                                              

 Shooting Star

 by: Owl City

                                                                                                

My interpretation of this song is in being about the music industry. They are talking about how they may have a popular song but it's just a matter of time before they are forgotten about because they don't have famous connections.

All The Right Moves
by: One Republic

                                                                                          

Titanium
by: David Guetta (ft. Sia)

                                                                                               

I think the lyrics in this video may be a little off...

Pumpin' Blood
by: NONONO

                                                                                            

And even though this is a very 80's song, no dance would be complete without a slow dance to...

Forever Young
by: Alphaville