"Nobody wants to see a beating heart."Another roulette, though I do apologise for the scarcity of the posts lately.
The Chapin Sisters - Kill Me Now [
Lake Bottom, 2008]
(BONUS:
The Chapin Sisters - Borderline [Madonna cover])
The Chapin Sisters are a group of actual sisters,
Abigail and
Lily Chapin, and
Jessica Craven, whose dark, sad and heavy folk here weighs down your heart beautifully. Their voices intertwine in a lovely way. Hear an original song, pleading for a lover to kill them; and their reimagining of a
Madonna hit.
Bitter:Sweet - Take 2 Blue [
The Mating Game, 2006]
A playful, satiric jab at modern life and its ease with antidepressants and other 'pills' as a curative for all the ills in life. A handy filter gives lead singer
Shana Halligan the feel of an announcer or voice through a telephone, sweetly instructing us to bend to the pressures of life and 'take 2 blue'. See, now don't you feel lovely? Now good night.
Great Lake Swimmers - The Man With No Skin [
Great Lake Swimmers, 2003]
There's something earthy and natural about
Great Lake Swimmers, something about their music that, at a visceral level, sounds like the mountains singing. I think it's
Tony Dekker's voice, which feels like the lines that run through a stone when you break it and draw your finger across it, or else like the wind echoing through the peaks. This song in particular is a beautiful look at the nature of vulnerability.
Los Campesinos! - Death to Los Campesinos! [
Hold On Now, Youngster..., 2008]
Los Campesinos!, a Welsh band so fantastic they require an exclamation mark at the end! It fits, too, because listening to them automatically means I'm bouncing in my seat. A duet swinging between Campesinos
Gareth and
Aleksandra, this is a wonderful piece of dance-about music. Note that they have
another album due out in a couple months, as well.
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