Melodic ambience

While most of my music-related posts deal with trance music I need to mention that alternative rock music is something I also listen to. The only problem is, that good albums have become rare throughout the last years. Bands like Counting Crows, Feeder etc. have become somehow boring and very commercial with their new tracks. Some while ago I even heard some Counting Crows tracks as a background music in a grocery store which says a lot in my view.

Nevertheless I need to mention two very good albums that were released last year. For one it is the very good “Eyes open” album from Snow Patrol. I don’t need to say much about them since they are played almost everywhere now after the fantastic precursor “Final straw” was already noticed a lot. The other album is by Sparklehorse - “Dreamt for lightyears in the belly of the mountain”. While the slow tracks on that album are just beautiful it convinces also through it’s different styles and instrumentations of the songs.