Basia Bulat - "In the Night". An unreleased song, a living-room demo, four walls & a floor and sounds bravely sounding. It's a lighthouse desperately seeking its ship: that brave white beam scouring a million nighttime wave-tips, grazing two hundred low-flying birdwings. Too much hope, love, fate, joy, fear for one voice; instead it's a host of them. Too sick to be seasick, too awed to be awestruck - the song just whirls and whirls, the light-house-light spins and scours, and the drums & autoharp gallop with the whole breathless pace of possibility.
I raved Basia Bulat's Oh My Darling in January, and my enthusiasm remains steadfast. It's now out in Britain, and a North American release will follow in the fall. (Some cool tour-dates are also in store.)
The Children's Hour - "SOS JFK". This one's a ship in search of its lighthouse. And the personal ad runs like so:
Josephine Foster's voice is wind in sails, whales in tide.
[buy The Children's Hour's single (?), exquisite LP.]
Posted by Sean at July 4, 2007 8:35 AMI love you guys.
Who else would pull out an unreleased song by Basia Bulat.
How did you manage to get your hands on this?
Posted by: anonymous at July 4, 2007 11:27 PMTwo great picks, thank you! I'm a long time lurker, but I thought I'd pop in and finally say thanks!
Posted by: Jad at July 5, 2007 12:43 PMThanks for that Basia Bulat track... I've been loving her album lately.
Posted by: Ginny at July 10, 2007 2:34 AMWhen I heard the first few bars of that Basia Bulat track, I would have sworn I was listening to a cover of Arcade Fire's "Keep the Car Running".
Posted by: Joe at July 28, 2007 9:06 AM