Friday, December 2, 2011

Pretty Lights' Filling Up the City Skies

If I was forced to live on a deserted island and had to listen to one album 24-7 I would choose Filling Up the City Skies by Pretty Lights, released in 2008. This album is beautiful, soft, calm, and expressive. I find myself listening to it for hours and it is one of the few albums I have come across that does not contain a single song I do not enjoy. I would find it easy to sleep, work, eat, and lounge to this album all the time. My favorite song on this album is Solamente, which is a beautiful, soulful song. None of the songs from Filling Up the City Skies have any lyrics, they are all classified as electronic music, and much like Skrillex, do not fit neatly into one subgenre. The music is slow-paced, and some of it has a sound of glitch-hop to it. I don't know if I could stand to listen to any other album for days on end and at every hour of the day and night. I would say I would want to hear Skrillex, but I would never want to ruin one of my favorite artist's albums for me. If I were to listen to Skrillex for hours on end, not only would I be unable to get any sleep but also the music itself would be ruined for me forever due to the constant repetition. If I have ever heard any album that would be soothing to listen to all hours of the day and night, it would definitely be Filling Up the City Skies by Pretty Lights.

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