365 project "we're holding hands in the rain/s-saying words like 'i love you'/d-d-do ya love me?/Yeah!"

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Artist: The Avett Brothers
Album: I and love and you


At one point back in the fall of 2009, there was a stretch of face book status updates that all said the same thing, and it was something that I hadn’t quite yet figured out. All of my hipster friends were posting “Brooklyn, Brooklyn, take me in.” I understood why one of them would, as he lived in Brooklyn at the time, but I was having a hard time understanding why people on the west coast were posting this as well. I figured it had to do with music that I just hadn’t heard yet.


I was right. Not too long after, someone posted the video for the song I and love and you and I finally understood what was going on. There was a new band in town.


The thing about the Avett brothers is, though, that while I should have been drooling over this band this entire time, I really only started paying attention to them very, very recently. More recently than even id like to admit. I mean, they have had a home in my itunes for a good while now, probably a year or so, but I never actively sat down and listened. It just wasn’t really my thing. I don’t know what the hell was my thing over this past year, but it wasn’t the Avett brothers.


And then I heard kick drum heart and was kicking myself for not paying attention sooner, as this is quite possibly one of my most favorite songs ever. Its so happy and perky and upbeat and sweet, and I am left wondering why it wasn’t part of my life sooner. This is the kind of song that makes me want to be in love, not the comfortable sweats love, but the kind of love when everything is still fresh and new and exciting and every minute you get to spend with your significant other is magical.

My latest Avett brothers obsession is January wedding, which also finds its home on this album. Its another song that just makes me want to be in love. Even though the song has a tinge of sadness running through it, its still that pure, true, happy love that is what I long for and what I fear ill never find.

I don’t listen to the radio. I find most of what comes over the airwaves to be trite and merely a caricature of what music should be. Once in a while, though, there will be a gem like the Avett brothers that someone with some sense decides to add to the rotation, and it restores my faith in man, and in good music.