Ok, I know I’ve been gone a long time. I’m still here & I still have a ton of music-related crap to write down, but… but I’m just a slacker. I think I’ve also done the OCD thing & overwhelmed myself by overthinking everything I think about writing, when really, I should just write it.
Anyway, I can’t remember how I discovered this band. I ended up buying their CD, Seventh Tree, which contains a handful of songs that don’t engage me until the middle sometimes, but which engage me to the point where I can’t delete them off my playlist.
Mostly it has to do with singer Alison Goldfrapp’s very pretty vocals. There are certain artists like Chris Daughtry & Leona Lewis that can make me love an uninteresting song simply because their voices engage me. There are songs on this album that are like that – they would be boring except that the vocals just sound so… pretty.
However, the song that I absolutely can’t get out of my head is A&E. I only recently figured out what it’s about, “A&E” referring to “Accident & Emergency.” While it’s a pretty pathetic story the song tells, somehow it just made me like it more. Although I might not like it at all without the dancers.
