Daily Download: "Prospect Hummer," Animal Collective with Vashti Bunyan
I'm thrilled to offer as an exclusive download this preview of the title track from the hotly anticipated "Prospect Hummer" EP, a collaboration between acclaimed experimental band the Animal Collective and Vashti Bunyan, whose sole record, 1969's "Just Another Diamond Day," is cultishly revered by Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom and other leading lights of the wonderful but unfortunately named "freak folk" scene. It is music formed of fleeting, incomplete thoughts and half-formed, tip-of-the-mind reminiscences, barely holding together, but glimmering with strange beauty. Bunyan's voice is as clear and clean and studiedly naive as ever, almost a parody of the English folkie sprite sound, and her lyrics ("Your cat is a friendly bother/ Whod offer his heart with allegiance/ And if he could talk wed be best friends/ The only friend he has is his food") are a delight.
Great literary podcasts:
"In Walked Bud"
Amiri Baraka
"The Last Days of the Suicide Kid"
Charles Bukowski
"The House on Mango Street"
Sandra Cisneros
"A Reporter's Life,"
Walter Cronkite
"An Open Heart," by The Dalai Lama
Read by Nicholas Vreeman
"Robert Frost Reads"
Robert Frost
"In Harry's Bar in Venice"
Ernest Hemingway
"The War on Drugs"
Bill Hicks
"I Have a Dream"
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"King of Horror"
Read by Stephen King
"Motherless Brooklyn," by Jonathan Lethem
Read by Steve Buscemi
"Long Walk to Freedom," by Nelson Mandela
Read by Danny Glover
"Shopgirl"
Steve Martin
"All the Pretty Horses," by Cormac McCarthy
Read by Brad Pitt
"The Bluest Eye"
Toni Morrison
"Lolita," by Vladimir Nabokov
Read by Jeremy Irons
"The Bell Jar,"
Sylvia Plath
"The Raven," by Edgar Allen Poe
Read by Basil Rathbone
"Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," by JK Rowling
Read by Jim Dale
"Everything"
Henry Rollins
"Fast Food Nation," By Eric Schlosser
Read by Rick Adamson
"Me Talk Pretty One Day"
David Sedaris
"Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night"
Dylan Thomas
"Slaughterhouse Five"
Kurt Vonnegut
"Hooking Up"
Tom Wolfe
Audiofile logo by: Aris Blevins
