Lately I've been interested in listening to atmospheric Folk music. My favorite record right now is PJ Harvey's
White Chalk. For a long time - since Sonic Youth's
Daydream Nation turned me off of Hip-Hop in 2003 - I didn't care about artists who put more thought into their lyrics than their instrumentals. But what inspired me to buy
White Chalk were the dead-on descriptions of how atmospheric and eerie it is. It isn't the kind of record that I want to listen to all of the time, but at the right time of the day and/or in the "right" mood, I'm totally moved by it. I find myself actually seriously longing to live in a place that isn't so modern and cut off from nature. As a matter of fact, I think I'm through with big cities. I want to live in the kind of place that inspired the music of Mazzy Star.
This woman's LJ, Blog, Flickr page, and YouTube page totally inspire me:
http://oola.livejournal.com/
http://coalblackfilly.blogspot.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/oola/
http://www.youtube.com/profile_favorites?user=oola