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ROUGH N BUMBLE
by Sean
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 Dañez vs Rifhes - "see u fallin". Sinead O'Connor as ice-sculpture, run through with a snowblower, scattered glittering into the street. This is a remix that's all shards - the pure chorus uttered only once, if that, and when it comes it's like a prayer that makes it through all that cloud; a love-letter that makes it through the slot. [thanks so much, Andrew - send more any time / free download / site] Hop Along, Queen Ansleis - "Bay Area Baby". Hop Along's singer does everything with her voice: bends it, cradles it, throws it, tears it, strips it of bark, builds a lincoln-log house. It's the changes in her voice that push the song along, make it breathless. (Who needs the glockenspiel? The power's in that dusty roar.) I don't get what the song is about, don't get what the band name is about (though they've now abbreviated it to plain old Hop Along) - but there's an addictiveness to this complicated, peppery track, its slopes of changing tune. [thanks Luke / MySpace] Posted by Sean at December 14, 2009 2:37 AMComments
Glad to see your back. couldn't get onto the site for a while. Love the Hop Along song. Love Hop Along. Posted by Alex at December 15, 2009 5:27 PMthank god your back. down with script kiddies! Posted by ergosum at December 15, 2009 5:31 PMughhh the Hop Along song is so good!! Posted by John at December 16, 2009 3:54 PMWeird. Years ago, I saw Frances of Hop Along (at the time, she WAS Hop Along) open for a guy I know. They were an item for a while after that, actually. She had the audience play toy instruments along with her. It's cool to see musicians appear on this site who I know have really been dug up out of the body of truly obscure artists. Posted by Ed at December 17, 2009 12:28 AMI'm so happy to see this post!! I've been writing about Hop Along since 06!! Time to get this awesome band the attention they deserve. A ravenous fan base is not enough these days! Thank you Gramophone. Posted by Joanne at December 18, 2009 4:47 PMPost a comment |
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Sean Michaels lives in Montreal, where he is writing a novel. His work also occasionally appears at McSweeney's. Follow him on Twitter or reach him here.
Dan Beirne is an actor and writer living in Montreal. He writes fiction fiction fiction on here. It may feel true, but it is never True. He is most proud of his most recent project The Bitter End. Email him here Jordan Himelfarb lives in Toronto, where he is editor in chief of The Mark. Jordan's posts appear at Said the Gramophone only on the last Wednesday of every month. Email him here. Site design and header typography by Neale McDavitt-Van Fleet. The header graphic is randomized: this one is by . 
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