What does heartbreak sound like? Maybe it sounds like a girl saying the words ‘no-one’s touched my body, still feels like your body’ to the boy that left her (and, let’s face it, is never coming back). Maybe it’s that same girl breathlessly and mournfully holding onto memories of a better time. Read more…
When I first heard it, I couldn’t quite put my finger on what Mitski’s song Goodbye, My Danish Sweetheart was about. I got a strange, uneasy sense of discord every time I listened to it. But at the same time, I was completely captivated by it. Is this how crack addicts feel? I don’t know, but I do know that I wanted to hear the song over and over again. It really was like an addiction. Read more…
I don’t usually like to blow my own horn. But it’s a whole other story when it comes to the recorder! Yes, the humble recorder. I am not at all embarrassed to say that I am quite the virtuoso. It is not unknown for me to absolutely kill Moon River. And I completely own Greensleeves! So when I heard the opening (and closing) notes of Tirzah’s track I’m Not Dancing, it took me back to my primary school heyday. Ah, good times. Read more…
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