I stumbled across Aaron Thomas' somehow optimistically-sung yet hopelessly-worded song "Any More" via SXSW. And I find myself moved every time I hear it, like the rest of his music. Somehow he combines the haunting with the uplifting.

Here is the first single from his second album of the same name, Made of Wood.



Aaron was born in Hobart, Tasmania (Australia), and has lived in the Ukraine, the United States and now resides in Madrid, Spain. His first album release was Follow the Elephants (Everlasting records/Recordings From the Other Side, 2008), recorded and mixed in Madrid by singer, guitarist, writer and poet, Julio de la Rosa (El Hombre Burbuja). Follow the Elephants led to invitations to play and sell his record in the US (CMJ and South by South West, in New York and Austin, Texas), the UK (Concrete and Glass, London), Germany (PopKomm in Berlin) and his native Australia (various headline shows and supports in different cities). Meanwhile Aaron was writing, rehearsing with his band - plucked from the best acts on Madrid’s avant-garde and indie circuits – Jorge Fuertes on drums and percussion (Doss, Pleasure Fuckers, NudoZurdo), Javi Díez-Ena on the stand-up bass (Dead Capo, Insecto, Ainara Legardon), Rebecca Lander on backing vocals (The Knot, Roman Lieske, Alek Stark, Kracovia), and Abraham Boba (Nacho Vegas, Julio de la Rosa).

http://www.myspace.com/aaronthomasband