Tumblr Discoveries

Late to the Macro-Blogging Game and Late to Eternal Summers

I'm late on a lot of things, but I eventually come around.  In the few months that I've had this blog, I've been cross-posting content to Twitter, Facebook, even Google+ (Feel free to follow or like this blog on any of those, btw).  The most dynamic community, in terms of drawing traffic and interaction, has been Tumblr (Feel free to follow me there and reblog some stuff, too.), which I joined at about the same time that I created a Blogger account.  Not that there's been a great deal of either traffic or interaction at this point, but Tumblr has definitely been the most active source for that type of stuff.

I'm just not sure if people pay much attention to the long-form blog anymore.  Maybe if I started this thing about five years ago, like I always said I would, each post would draw a stream of angry, only partially coherent, anonymous comments like BrooklynVegan.  No matter, I enjoy doing things this way, and I'll likely keep it up for a while.

Back to Tumblr, though.  It's a two-way street.  Even with the hundreds of artists and record labels I follow on Twitter, I'd say most of the new music I discover now comes from Tumblr-er's posting of what they like.

Carrying through on that late on a lot of things theme, over the last few days, Tumblr blog thedreamcomparison has introduced me to a dream pop duo (now a trio, I guess) that's been around for a few years, Eternal Summers.  The band's latest LP, Correct Behavior, came out just last week.

Eternal Summers don't do that same, languid dream pop that's taken over a large percentage of the mindiesphere recently.  Their version has an almost punky edge to it that I've really been enjoying.  I've spent the last day or so listening to all the Eternal Summers I could find and grabbing a few records.

So, I'll keep long-form blogging it over here.  You can read all of this stuff via Tumblr if that's your preference.  I know I'm going to keep obsessively scrolling through that feed.  It turns up some gems now and then.