I’m going to start posting music suggestions every Monday in correlation with the twitter hashtag #musicmonday.

Today I want to feature 2 drastically different songs and videos that have been stuck in my head for the past week.

The first is Oblivion by Mastodon:

I never really knew Mastodon other than a band on a Need For Speed game for PS2 I used to have back in the day. I shot photos of them last year but still really never gave them a listen until recently when “The Wolf is Loose” came up on a Pandora playlist. That song stayed in my itunes recently played and my head for a week and I became curious about the rest of their music so I hoped on Last.fm and discovered their most popular song: “Oblivion”.

Deemed as “Progressive Sludge Metal” Mastodon has a sound as unique as their genre. “Oblivion” has a catchy dreamy chorus that has drawn my ears in non-stop over the last week since I heard it for the first time. I can’t really pinpoint any other songs in my library that have a hard but surreal sound. I get a feeling similar when I listen to A Perfect Circle but the unique vocals of multiple members of Mastodon make them stand apart.

The video for Oblivion is my new favorite music video. Not only does it compliment the song perfectly but it looks straight up BADASS! Best greenscreen, compositing, and VFX on a music video I have seen in a long time. The grading, backdrops and motions are just beautiful!

My second recommendation this week is “The House That Built Me” by Miranda Lambert. I’ve been following Miranda on twitter for awhile now but was not up to date on her music. I was getting dressed in a hotel in South Carolina this weekend and happened to catch the video for “The House That Built Me” on TV. Her soft vocals and cute southern voice caught my ear. I started watching the video and immediately got a sense of nostalgia for home and youth.

As you can see by my 2 selections this week, I have a very versatile taste in music. I can’t say I like a specific genre or even artist 100% of the time, but if it catches my ear, you’ll find it here!

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