So if you love me even half as much as you love your old Martin…
- Devon Sproule

I’m sitting here trying to figure out the new album by Grizzly Bear. I have the feeling that they’re going to be like The Walkmen album from last year that I never quite got. I can see fans of My Morning Jacket enjoying this album. Give me a couple of weeks.

It’s been pretty awesome weather the past few days and I’ve been doing my best to enjoy it. I took the dog to the dog park on Saturday and decided that it was a good time to be antisocial and listen to the new Au Revoir Simone while watching the big dog run away from the little dogs. My dog is such a wuss.

Au Revoir Simone’s 2007 album, The Bird of Music was one of the two or three albums that made it my emusic save for later list (where music goes to die) only to be removed, then added later, then removed again. The samples weren’t good enough to warrant me wanting the album and well, that’s the unfortunate truth of online music. I’m really glad that lala has come along to help me out with that issue.

When I saw that Au Revoir Simone had put out an album on the same day as the new White Rabbits (which I love) I decided that I wasn’t going to skip out on them this time. I’m glad that I didn’t. They remind me a lot of Stars without necessarily being so bipolar. If Stars and Au Revoir Simone were rollercoasters at valley fair, Stars would be Wild Thing and Au Reviore Simone would be High Roller. How’s that for a Minnesota-only reference?

Well, that’s about all the time I’m willing to sit indoors right now. It’s taken me three times to spell all of the Revoir’s in this post. They started out at Reviore then changed to Revior, finally settling on the correct spelling (I hope). Check out Shadows.