Date: 17 October 2016, 7:30 to 8:15 p.m.
Place: YouTube
Song: "Waiting"
Artist: Alice Bowman
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Song: "Starry Eyes"
Artist: Cigarettes After Sex
Irony Matrix: 2.3 out of 10
Comment: Another discovery from yoga class (shout-out to Leslie V and Spotify), is Alice Bowman and her ethereal song "Waiting." I came home and plugged it into YouTube and let AutoPlay do its thing. Over subsequent days, the playlist has followed roughly the same pattern, with a variation experienced this evening. Sometimes it plays some other Boman songs, but it always segues into tunes by an El Paso, Texas, band called Cigarettes After Sex. Here's Boman, who is Swedish, with the kickoff track:
Boman's sultry sounds segue into the spooky mood pop of Cigarettes After Sex, which sounds like a cross between Mazzy Star and the chi-chi covers band Nouvelle Vague, except with dudes (so maybe add a dash of Giant Sand). Eventually, during AutoPlay, we get a perfect cover of REO Speedwagon's 1980 lighter-flicking anthem "Keep on Loving You":
A few songs later, a much more obscure cover -- "Starry Eyes" from Roky Erickson of the '60s psychedelic rascals the 13th Floor Elevators:
BONUS TRACK
Usually, after YouTube stubs out Cigarettes After Sex, this aching ballad from the Heartless Bastards plays -- "Only for You":
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