Alright, for this pick I've been considering an Australian Funk band, a Canadian pop/rock duo, an American (although i could've sworn she was canadian as well) Alt Country singer and an American harp player. None of them can be picked in the next round, since that spot has been set in stone from day one. Thus, I'm stuck. Damn. Well, it would probably make most sense to take the band that would brighten the mood the most, seeing as how my island is not exactly short on melancholic, if not actually sad music. However, who am I kidding? How am I supposed to pass up a harp player? Especially a pretty harp player at that.
Joanna Newsom
And in store are dreams so daring
that the night can't stop from staring.
I'll swim sweetly as a herring
through the ether, not despairing.
Go to sleep, you stunning sky;
gently creep cunning by:
A quiet hum is amplified
by your thumb, that you suck dry.
First: Walnut Whales
Favourite: The Milk-Eyed Mender
Why: Someone told me that there was an Alt Folk singer that played harp and that her music amazing. This I refused to believe and said friend convinced me to give it a try. The rest, as they (don't actually) say, was beautiful music. Whether Mz Newsom tells long and incredibly convoluted tales of Monkeys and Bears, or shorter and yet just as beautiful storys of someone quietly falling in love but failing to act on it, I always listen spellbound. Her voice, if unique and somewhat necessitating getting used to, is utterly fascinating and her compositions simply work. One of the few artists, where I can just listen to the music and do nothing else but see the hours fly past.
And I like plenty of mainstream popular stuff for what it is. Never heard a Coldplay song that makes me want to turn the volume up and sing along and hell, I'd do that with Roberta Black, as awful as she is.
