Music to My Ears

I recently went on a mini-music download binge and came across some new interesting stuff to listen to. I read a review of Karen Elson's (Mrs. Jack White to those of you who don't know) debut album "The Ghost Who Walks", that prompted me to download it in it's entirety and amazingly enough the girl can sing! Damn multi-talented genetic freaks of nature! Her voice is what I would describe as haunting, and the songs have creepy lyrics and sounds, all in all I like it! It has an old timey quality to it too that I love, especially the song "100 Years From Now". Sounds like you could have played that track off of a Victrola or whatever they used way back in the day. If you want something a little different and dark, this is a fun album to explore.

Next I was in the mood for something a little more light and fun, so I downloaded VV Brown's latest album, "Traveling Like the Light". It has a fun girl group feel to it that makes you wanna sing and dance along to her sassy lyrics about heartbreak and revenge. Oh sweet revenge.

Then I had to download the Dirty Dancing Soundtrack, which was $5 on Amazon. So worth it! I love the movie, and I LOVE the soundtrack. Perfect cleaning the house/singing/dancing by yourself music. Listening to it made me want to plan my fantasy 80's dance movie night. Fantasy because I don't know who I could convince to come to it and not hate me forever afterwards. But ignoring that small detail the lineup would include: Footloose, Dirty Dancing and of course Flashdance. Maybe one at a time would be more realistic...

The last new music of importance that I discovered was the new album from The Dø , "A Mouthful". They are a French/Finnish duo who have some fairly experimental sounding songs on their ginormous 18-track album. There's a pretty wide variety of songs found here, the singer's voice is kind of child-like and sentimental, which I like. She kind of reminds me very slightly of Bjork. But only slightly. The track Unissasi Laulelet an awesome tribal beat to it. I think (Holly, maybe you can confirm) she is singing in Finnish. One of the other more interesting tracks is Queen Dot Kong, a sort of rap-circus mish-mash that is really weird, but also really awesome. It seems like every month I am downloading something new from a French artist. Viva la France I guess!

Oh new music does make my heart sing!