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Continue reading →: Everything But the Girl Play “Run a Red Light”After a long hiatus period between releases, Everything But the Girl principals Ben Watt and Tracey Thorn put out a new record and this single to reflect their core sound in a 2020s context. While doing so, they show their skill with textural and thematic contrast between electronic and acoustic – and most importantly – innocence and experience. Here’s how.
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Continue reading →: Midlake Play “Bandits”It’s one thing to write and play a folk-rock tune. It’s another to write a bona fide folk *tale*. Midlake’s “Bandits” is surely one of those. What is this story about? Set in a pastoral world, what does it say about modern times and morality?
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Continue reading →: The Pogues Play “Lorca’s Novena”The death of Spanish poet and playwright Frederico Garcia Lorca was shrouded in tragedy and mystery. It inspired singer, songrwriter, and frontman for The Pogues Shane MacGowan to write this elegiac song about injustice. But “Lorca’s Novena” also has something to say about the vital role of artists in times of state violence and repressive political forces.
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Continue reading →: Kate Wolf Sings “Across the Great Divide”Having built her career as an independent artist from the 1970s and into the Eighties, Kate Wolf was a singer-songwriter who sought to put words and music to the ineffable feelings associated with what it is to be human. This tune is one of her strongest artistic statements, contemplating what it is to consider the passage of time.
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Continue reading →: Flight of the Conchords & Friends Play “Feel Inside (and Stuff Like That)”Recorded as a legitimate charitable musical effort, Flight of the Conchords 2012 song “Feel Inside (and Stuff Like That)” is Schrödinger’s charity single. It’s a parody. But it’s also the real deal. How do the celebrated musical comedy duo strike this balance? And what do the many musical luminaries included in the recording make it work so well?
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Continue reading →: The Tragically Hip Play “Ahead by a Century”If Americans have their dream, Canadians have a quest. Touted as “Canada’s Band”, The Tragically Hip’s 1996 single “Ahead by a Century seemed to sum up what they were about as a band who represented what it is to be Canadian. What it is about this track that emphasizes that? What makes it so resonant across so many lines?
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