The first, is the longer term guy: Luke Doucet. Song - "Broken One."
The man's got a wonderful way of playing and singing with heart, so much that you don't realize that he's being pretty damn nasty
to some girl. "One day you're gonna miss me, one day you're gonna wake up cold, then you wish you could kiss me, when you're old and you're alone."It feels fun, but if you've lived long enough, there's someone you can pinpoint these lyrics toward. And the tune is just crafted finely enough that after every listen, 30 listens for me (quite a few compared to other songs on my iTunes), it doesn't feel stale at all! He borders on folk rock, but just about anyone can listen to this man. Also recommended: "It's Not the Liquor I Miss."
The other comes from the new Dntel release, "Dumb Luck."
I knew I wanted this record, but after listening to it in the record store, 6 songs through, I could barely contain myself. I said to the girl at the counter, "Listen to this. I know it's going to be on your top 5 albums of the moment." While it's a solid album, there's definately a song that stands alone, and that I've overplayed so many times the past couple days - "To A Fault (ft. Grizzly Bear)"The song breathes so well, and fades in and out of hooks, but fully hits a pop stride midway, where there's popping stacatto keyboard chords, complimented with drums that bounce in and out. (I just can't get ENOUGH of those 30 seconds) You'd expect to hear this out of the Postal Service. I guess he wanted to give us a little tease - a little taste. Grizzly Bear work perfectly here, their downtempo vocal style just wavers about, but appropriately compliments the tone. The song's a nice bright spot worth jigging to, in a typically moody set of songs. I listen to it entirely too much. A couple days ago I said it was the song of the year. Probably more like the song of the month, but even still, it really smacked me in my face with awesomeness. So, listen to it based on that description.
