It's wet and gray in Brooklyn this afternoon. I'm staring out my window into various cluttered backyards separated by rickety fences and tall dead trees. There is a big, black dog running up and down the back steps of a distant brownstone and a wayward squirrel on a rooftop who looks lost yet playful. I am listening to the perfect music. It's a band from Sweden called Melpo Mene. They are rain flecked cottage windows, rusty robots, lonely soda shops, black and white striped umbrellas, licorice, pink sunglasses, dancing dolphins, a French beach in 1967, dime store ukuleles, and fading rainbows. They are a beautiful dream.
Check out the whimsically illustrated video for their song "I Adore You" off the full-length Bring the Lions Out:
Gorgeous song, it has a Royal Tenenbaum vibe. Very warming in this January weather.