Morning Music Notes – It’s a Record About ME

Sweden folk rockers First Aid Kit are back with a new album. We’ve already heard My Silver Lining from Stay Gold. Now, feast your ears upon Cedar Lane.

The track is simple track with layered harmonies providing lovely sounds throughout, especially in the chorus. I guess that’s why it’s the chorus. Stay Gold hits stores on June 10.

First Aid Kit – Cedar Lane

Morning Music Notes

Canada finally has Google Play Music! Cloud-based music storage which is FREE is now here for Canadians. What’s next – running water? You can store up to 20,000 songs on your Google Play Music cloud (after painstakingly uploading them). If you pay for an account, you can stream millions of songs without ads, and other such perks. (via Digital Trends)

Father John Misty, who wowed us at Osheaga last year, is readying his sophomore album. It’ll be a concept album, which will be a semi-autobiographical take on himself and the time heading into his marriage. So lots of songs about dirty, dirty sex I suppose. (via Exclaim)

Dan Auerbach has produced the latest Lana Del Rey record. Apparently it wasn’t all selfies and cupcakes – Auerbach said she’s a feisty one. “There were moments when she was fighting me. I could sense that maybe she didn’t want to have anybody think she wasn’t in control because I’m sure it’s really hard to be a woman in the music business.” Truth! (via NME)