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Music: Stuart A. Staples: Leaving Songs

I haven't the slightest clue if the music I've recommended to y'all has ever influenced a music purchase, but, here's another that I think most folks who share my love of melancholic sounds will really dig. Stuart A. Staples' new release Leaving Songs is really a fantastic record. I had no idea this was one of the dudes from Tindersticks--which explains its magic--but wow! It's slow stuff, in the order of the Willard Grant Conspiracy and Leonard Cohen . . . it's such a summer night mood making album. I'm sitting in the media den filing away CDs that are yet to be alphabatized (a normal summer task) and listening to this sadness. The organ, the slow chords, the gentle voice, the mood . . . all very lazy and sad. Good stuff.