15 posts tagged “song of the moment”
This song has been putting a smile on my face with every listen.
Sure, Frightened Rabbit aren't the first band to explore loneliness, horniness, or emptiness in song, just like they aren't the first set of siblings to decide to jam together, but their jangly melodies claw their way inside your brain just the same, making them latest in a long line of Glasgow bands to effortlessly combine celebratory sonics and miserablist lyrics into something singular.
-Rebecca Raber, April 14, 2008 -- Pitchfork.com
Like a distant Canadian cousin of Blitzen Trapper, this three-piece spins shaggy songs into expansive, genre-bending symphonies. And though last year's too-brief With/Avec EP hinted at Plants and Animals' expansiveness, it didn't fully prepare listeners for Parc Avenue, a sprawling collection of rootsy melodies, majestic arrangements, and classic rock riffs that owes as much to jam-band psychedelia and it does to delicately orchestrated chamber-folk. -- Pitchfork, March 13, 2008.
I'm late to the party that is Nellie McKay, but after hearing this song on A Prairie Home Companion yesterday, I invited myself in, parked my ass on the couch in the corner and don't plan on leaving anytime soon.
This album went into my iPod today and may be hanging out in my Recently Played list for weeks.
