mmmmm bop
How could I forget how happy music can make me? I’ve been feeling kinda angsty this morning, I think mostly it’s the end of a week back from vacation, house is a mess, kid is sniffly and Richard and I are feeling a little sleep-deprived. Still wondering why I’m uninspired to design. Feeling as though I’ve lost whatever design talent I had, blah blah blah. But I’ve got my headphones on and I’m listening to a beautiful band, Margot and the Nuclear So & So’s. Their name might make you think that they’re some sort of female-led rockabilly group but that would be a wrong assumption! Richard Edwards sings mournfully over lovely folky orchestration. Billboard.com describes them as “cinematic chamber pop songbook of what was once and what might have been” Download a few of their fine tunes at Myspace
Spin.com says :
The tracks act as mini-screenplays which unfold into romantic sagas ("Skeleton Key," "Jen Is Bringin' the Drugs"), or include detours into dialogue ("On a Freezing Chicago Street") are highly literate with the exception of the saccharine "Paper Kitten Nightmare" which features Edwards crooning "meow meow meow" -- seriously. On "Quiet as a Mouse," nearly every member of the band gets a turn in the spotlight with string-heavy sections, a horn solo, a piano-driven opening, and a grizzled, guitar-heavy chorus in which Edwards warns, "Wake up, the sun is rising without you."
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I say that I forgot that music could lift me out of my own moody head. It can also be my own form of Ritalin. Folks might tell ya that I’ve got a short little ol’ attention span. At work, before the blogosphere, I would sometimes find myself up out of my office chair wandering about. Now I find myself clickity clicking from blog to blog. It’s mostly that I can’t stand to wait for Photoshop to finish a task, or waiting for a website that I’ve been working on to finish uploading. SNAP. I’m wandering off web-wise. Put on some good tunes and suddenly the antsy child fidgeting in the corner of my head is occupied. At least for a bit. Check out the new CD links on the sidebar there. Dig in and groove!
