I wanted to recommend music through here and figured I would write some sort reviews of songs worth checking out. My hopes are the song will reach someone and they will decide to download the album. So here is the first one, hope you enjoy.
St Vincent: The Strangers.
The album Actor opens with The Strangers, a song reminiscent of Marry Me (St. Vincent’s first album) with its ethereal vocals and contagious chorus. (“Paint the black hole blacker”) St. Vincent prepped for this album by scoring scenes to films as an exercise in writing/composing and this particular track has the feel of a Disney soundtrack instrumentally until the crunching/fuzzy guitars come in and compete madly with the angelic background vocals. This mixture of opposites works quite well for St. Vincent. This track would not be out of place on Marry Me but fits the darker theme that Actor evokes a lot better in my opinion. If you enjoy dirty guitar sounds and very experimental but accessible music, be sure to check out Actor by St. Vincent; however I should mention that I enjoy her first album, Marry Me just as much, if not more.
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