Wolf Gang - Something Unusual

Photo via MGMason Photography

Today I had to turn my chair away from the window to avoid making awkward eye contact with the window washer. It got me thinking of how much I would enjoy being a city window washer and I came up with a list of pros:

• outside job 
• casual clothes
• It's not weird that you get to look into people's offices and apartments 
• no work on rainy days
• headphones are OK 
• city wide views
• so many opportunities to freak people out
• most exciting of all is repelling down tall buildings
• Endless amounts of fun 

While I struggled to find cons people were kind enough to point out that falling, death, and injuries are the obvious ones. I think the pros win out. I used to make my own harnesses out of dog leashes (usually I tested them out on my younger sister first and used them to to pull her up into trees)...so you know I'm safe and handy when it comes to ropes. I enjoy rock climbing, and I've always been intrigued by the illegal sport of building scaling and this ladder sport/pomparkour. I think window washing is a good fit for me. It's a completely underrated profession. I bet you never thought about window washing like that, I didn't until today and now my mind has been blown.

Anyway, that's my something unusual for the day. Thankfully Wolf Gang sent over a song off of his upcoming album, Suego Faults, to be released June 27th that I was able to tie in with window washing. If you were looking for real words on his music you can read the post I did on his other fantastic song "Back to Back" last week. But this song is fun too, "a silent cry to be something unusual" is a line that's going to stick with me all day.
 Wolf Gang - Something Unusual by wolfgang

Wolf Gang - Back to Back

I wasn't sure about this song at first but then I got to the chorus...total game changer. It's one of those songs where you wait patiently just to hear that delicious chorus again and eventually you learn to like the song as a whole. It's a little slow and that random electronic noise bothers me, the way the bass guitar is used in this song might remind you of The XX, but the chorus is just pure gold with those guitar chords. Please submit your email to his website for a free download of "Back to Back", and if you go to his Facebook page you can get "Pyramid Song" for free as well. Stay tuned for Wolf Gang's debut album out later this year. Also check out the Active Child remix of this song where it gets a synthy makeover while keeping the somber tone of the song.

Wolf Gang - Back To Back