Super Eagles - "Love's A Real Thing"

The Ontology

Love is a real thing. Expressible by

The Aesthetic

Actual psych shipped overseas, melted and sweated into something new. An organ played by a child; a guitar played by a skilled, overenthusiastic child, who, like the baby he is, insists on bending every note he plays. A skittering guitar solo in eight bars. Raw-throated Hendrix vocals. The force and manic energy of the American classic rock for which the Super Eagles' love is real. Doubt me?

The Epistemology

"Hold me tenderly and you will see/I'll prove it to you, my loving is sweet."

The Teleology

For us: to which to dance, love, and make merry. [Buy]

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Matt Baldwin - "She Was a Girl, She Was in Love"

An open-tuned acoustic guitar and an aching melody, accompanied by the smallest intakes and slightest outputs of a guitarist's breath. Little is as lovely as listening to the breathing of a musician in song. A player's breath, breathed to an internal rhythm, can be a clue about the creativity of an artist - their own perception of rhythm and time, even pitch and space, embodied more profoundly than in any intentional music. [From American Primitive Guitar, available only on emusic]