Porcelain Raft - Drifting In and Out

Just as I expected, Porcelain Raft’s debut LP, Strange Weekend, is stunning. This is the opening cut.

Just buy this gem next week. Preferably on vinyl, but MP3s are okay too.

Also, Remiddi and whoever else that’s playing with him live as Porcelain Raft are opening for M83 on their European tour. If you’re lucky enough to live over there, go to that show.

The Rapture - It Takes Time To Be A Man

Continuing from yesterday, here’s another fantastic track off the new album from The Rapture, In The Grace Of Your Love.

“It Takes Time To Be A Man” is the most striking departure for the band and it works wonderfully as the album closer. The sharp guitar lick and the sparse piano line play off each other like the world’s most beautiful relationship working through the world’s most serene argument.

Luke Jenner wails “I betcha’ can’t get what you want/come on baby, come on darlin’/I betcha’ can’t get what ya need/Come on sugar, and try/” The promise that things get better and that we, as men, are working hard and getting better all the time.

It’s why George Clooney and Ryan Gosling are the kinds of guys women really want. Aside from their striking good looks, they’ve put in time to understand the female vision of what a man is and should be. (As an aside, will any other movie this year cause the female stroke incidence rate to rise more than Clooney and Gosling’s Ides of March?)

It’s the sort of track that will spark a want for change for those currently in a relationship, but put a smile on the face of those without. Knowing you fucked up something important isn’t fun (speaking personally), but it becomes that way when you think of the grand possibilities that come with the next life you get to impact.

In The Grace Of Your Love releases September 5 in Europe and the next day in the States.