Friday, December 18, 2009
Swing Tree
discovery's 'swing tree.' i've listened to their entire album ("LP") three times today- a behavioral throwback to my teens and very early twenties. it's kind of nice to get hypnotized by music in an adolescent manner.
i'm under the impression that pretty much nobody that reads my blog likes my music posts, but i don't care. i'm doing them anyway!
here's some more:
"so insane," which boasts some neat tempo changes that makes it feel like there's a song within a song thing going on, which i enjoy.
"i wanna be your boyfriend," which combines a sample that sounds like it belongs on a hip-hop album (kelis, maybe?) with a mumbly, meandering almost conversational monologue of a vocal.
the album seems pretty straight forward on first listen, and it all seems pretty simple sonically, but i don't know... i really like it, and it's got more going on than i initially thought. *shrug* it's pretty sweet natured lyrically, too- unguarded and charming and it gets a LITTLE bit abstract at times, but not bang your head against the ground obtuse and pretentious, so that's nice.
OH YEAH! they have a neat cover of "i want you back" by the jackson 5. that's a good song- those motown svengalis knew what they were doing- a song that good is damn near impossible to fuck up too bad. it's got good bones.
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i like "So Insane" for the same reason - it feels like the vocals get dripped in cough syrup at just the right moment. i've yet to scope out the rest of the album, though... only 'cause i keep reading that it's mostly lite fare, and don't wanna be disappointed by the rest of it.
ReplyDeleteit definately has its standout tracks, but the album is good. i would say that 7 out of 10 tracks i like a lot, and the other 3 are still pretty good. it forms a good cohesive whole.
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