{"id":896,"date":"2014-09-19T09:00:20","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T08:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/douglascowie.com\/?p=896"},"modified":"2014-09-18T11:31:33","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T10:31:33","slug":"song-of-the-week-far-from-portland-by-lau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/?p=896","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Week: &#8220;Far from Portland&#8221; by Lau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each Friday I pick a song\u2013new, old, borrowed, blue\u2013that\u2019s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it.<\/p>\n<p>This is &#8220;Far from Portland&#8221; by Lau:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8HhgbPF5fhg\" width=\"420\" height=\"236\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As I write this week&#8217;s post, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arethescotsindependentyet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">the residents of Scotland are voting<\/a> in a referendum to decide whether Scotland will become an independent nation, or whether it will remain as part of the United Kingdom, so it seemed appropriate to share a song by the fantastic Scottish folk group <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lau-music.co.uk\/about-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lau<\/a>.\u00a0 Lau performed at this year&#8217;s End of the Road Festival, and were an absolute highlight of the weekend for me.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not easy to perform on a big stage in the middle of the Saturday afternoon of a festival, but Lau had my jaw as close to literally dropping as is possible with their thoughtful, intense, exciting and absolutely absorbing music. 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