So I smoke a pint of tea a day
So the last new music post of the year is softer stuff! Not so much the guitar heavy alternative I've been linking, some more female vocalists and acoustics.
In this case, the honorable mention goes at the top to Sarah Slean. Haven't heard too much of her stuff, but Duncan is a beautiful, emotional song. There's a few live versions on Youtube, but I can't find one I like enough to go, "Yes. This."
Queen's Freddie Mercury teams up with opera's Montserrat Caballé. Together, they fight crime. It doesn't really sound like the sort of thing that would work, but just give it a listen. They achieve some amazing harmony that put this as one of my favorite new songs. The end of this song always gives me a chill. It cuts off suddenly because it leads into a second song which I don't know.
Of the few songs I've heard of Regina Spektor, I can safely say that her singing style just grates on me for reason. On The Radio stuck with me, though. This is a good example of why I like songs and not always artists; I can like a given song or two or three from an artist while generally finding the rest of their work not to my taste.
"Now Geoff," I hear you say, "this is about new music from this year! What is one of your favorite bands, Simon & Garfunkel, doing here?" I actually heard this song for the first time two weeks ago, despite the fact I've had the album for a year or two now. I have no idea how that happened, but I'm really digging it. Clocking in at the longest song title on my computer is A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara'd Into Submission). It's a style parody of Bob Dylan, and that just drew me in immediately.
In this case, the honorable mention goes at the top to Sarah Slean. Haven't heard too much of her stuff, but Duncan is a beautiful, emotional song. There's a few live versions on Youtube, but I can't find one I like enough to go, "Yes. This."
Click to viewQueen's Freddie Mercury teams up with opera's Montserrat Caballé. Together, they fight crime. It doesn't really sound like the sort of thing that would work, but just give it a listen. They achieve some amazing harmony that put this as one of my favorite new songs. The end of this song always gives me a chill. It cuts off suddenly because it leads into a second song which I don't know.
Of the few songs I've heard of Regina Spektor, I can safely say that her singing style just grates on me for reason. On The Radio stuck with me, though. This is a good example of why I like songs and not always artists; I can like a given song or two or three from an artist while generally finding the rest of their work not to my taste.
"Now Geoff," I hear you say, "this is about new music from this year! What is one of your favorite bands, Simon & Garfunkel, doing here?" I actually heard this song for the first time two weeks ago, despite the fact I've had the album for a year or two now. I have no idea how that happened, but I'm really digging it. Clocking in at the longest song title on my computer is A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara'd Into Submission). It's a style parody of Bob Dylan, and that just drew me in immediately.