OK, let's lose some fans here: Alison Krauss annoys me. Her voice and tonality are too perfect, too rounded. I don't feel the emotion in it. There's no tension. When I hear her, I just sit there and wonder if she ever gets mad, or even sweats, for that matter, because listening to her, I can't imagine that she ever pushes herself like that.
Not that it's just about soft vs. loud. There's spare, achingly pretty Gillian Welch, and there's forced shouting like Régine Chassagne does sometimes that grates.
So whom do I love? These artists, among others, especially in these songs, where you know the singer isn't just sweating, but probably about to pop all the blood vessels in his or her eyes from these lyrical convulsions, songs that throb intensely enough to throw off your inner ear balance and make you dizzy:
"Grass," Animal Collective
"Charmer," Kings of Leon
"You'll Find a Way," Santogold
"Faberge for Shuggie," Of Montreal
And the original King of the Primal Scream, Little Richard in "Good Golly Miss Molly," naturally.
Now, the instrumental counterparts to the oral paroxysms:
Bass: "Moby Octopad," Yo La Tengo (Honorable Mention to the keyboard); "The Girl I Love, She Got Long Black Wavy Hair," Zeppelin; "Balaclava," Arctic Monkeys
Guitar: "I Turn My Camera On," Spoon; "Patty Lee," Les Savy Fav; "Production City," The Whigs; "Pulling a Train," Six Finger Satellite
Drums & Percussion: "Brahminy Kite," Caribou; "Dear Can," !!!; "Woman on the Screen," Boris; "Pulling a Train," Six Finger Satellite
Most Capable Implementation of an Accordion (Along With Julieta) and All Other String, Wind and Reed Instruments by Current Artists: A Hawk and a Hacksaw
Here's "Fernando's Giampari," from The Way the Wind Blows:
Not that it's just about soft vs. loud. There's spare, achingly pretty Gillian Welch, and there's forced shouting like Régine Chassagne does sometimes that grates.
So whom do I love? These artists, among others, especially in these songs, where you know the singer isn't just sweating, but probably about to pop all the blood vessels in his or her eyes from these lyrical convulsions, songs that throb intensely enough to throw off your inner ear balance and make you dizzy:
"Grass," Animal Collective
"Charmer," Kings of Leon
"You'll Find a Way," Santogold
"Faberge for Shuggie," Of Montreal
And the original King of the Primal Scream, Little Richard in "Good Golly Miss Molly," naturally.
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Now, the instrumental counterparts to the oral paroxysms:
Bass: "Moby Octopad," Yo La Tengo (Honorable Mention to the keyboard); "The Girl I Love, She Got Long Black Wavy Hair," Zeppelin; "Balaclava," Arctic Monkeys
Guitar: "I Turn My Camera On," Spoon; "Patty Lee," Les Savy Fav; "Production City," The Whigs; "Pulling a Train," Six Finger Satellite
Drums & Percussion: "Brahminy Kite," Caribou; "Dear Can," !!!; "Woman on the Screen," Boris; "Pulling a Train," Six Finger Satellite
Most Capable Implementation of an Accordion (Along With Julieta) and All Other String, Wind and Reed Instruments by Current Artists: A Hawk and a Hacksaw
Here's "Fernando's Giampari," from The Way the Wind Blows:
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