Pa Pa Power

Dead Man's Bones - Pa Pa Power (Gospel Remake) (buy)


Thankfully the dramatic power of children's choir is not overused to make pastiche pop music. Dead Man's Bones (aka. Ryan Gosling and co.) properly uses a chorus in this reworked edit. And while your reaction may associate the sound and the hand claps with church, the lyrics suggest otherwise: "we won't destroy you / no we will not destroy you."

Spring '11 Mixtape

Darling, I leave you the forever unblooming
twig half-sunk in spring mud & the Nature that allows
such delicate & lasting atrocity.

Darling, darling, darling: my voice is a branch that would reach.

I leave you the ragged sky, once full of cloud & now
not. I leave you these things just as I leave

you: graceful passage from one something to the next.
Darling, even in this my voice dissipates

into hush & whiffs of light, sun-thrown, hurtle into the ground.

Nate Pritts, "from Spring Psalter". Copyright 2009 Nate Pritts. Courtesy of Cooper Dillon Books.

Morning

Star Slinger - Mornin' (buy)


If morning decided it wanted its name changed, it would be to this two-minute onomatopoeia.

More Star Slinger here.