The Besnard Lakes - Albatross (buy
)Playing Bowery Ballroom tonight.
The textural guitars are mostly static and the winsome vocal is delivered at a single patient pace throughout its five minutes. Its calmness makes it build slowly so it feels like a time lapse video of spliced together nature films and urban quotidians (not unlike the actual video). At it's cymbal-crashing climax you can easily imagine a budding flower or a baby walking; it's big because her voice isn't.
Ezra Furman and The Harpoons - Take Off Your Sunglasses (buy
)Sometimes there's nothing as uplifting as a harmonica refrain. The back-and-forth chorus, where (I imagine) Furman sings to The Harpoons who in turn yell to him: "Take off your sunglasses," is a lot like "Home". Apparently the choral backup style isn't the only similarity with Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros, they have essentially the same band name as well.
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