Monday 20 July 2015

Track of the Day: Max Jury - Great American Novel

There is an utterly timeless quality to Max Jury’s songwriting; a pairing of delicate vocals, narrative story-telling and outstanding ability to construct tender melodies which would sit beautifully at any point in the past 6 decades.

 “Great American Novel” is yet another example of his talents, and another stunning step in the exciting career of the young Iowa-based singer-songwriter. His debut album (which he is currently working on) is set to be one of my most hotly anticipated in recent years.




Great American Novel Lyrics: 

There’s a story in your voice
And in the way you say goodnight
Leaves me wanting more 
It lingers in my mind 
Lingers in my mind 

It was the golden age
Of being lost in love 
You wrote the perfect page 
Then you ripped it 
You ripped it up 

Now I’m waiting for a train
From New York to Boston 
It’s not supposed to be this way 
It’s not supposed to be this way 

It’s the price I have to pay 
Throw roses at the rich girls 
And I start to feel ok 
When I start to feel ok 

There’s a song inside my head
It plays on constantly 
Loud enough to wake the dead 
It’s a song for you and me 
It’s a song for you and me 

Those were the sleepless nights
Learning to make love 
And all the sunken eyes 
Of being too far apart 
Too far gone 

Now I’m waiting for a train
From New York to Boston 
It’s not supposed to be this way 
It’s not supposed to be this way 

It’s the price I have to pay 
Throw roses at the rich girls 
And I start to feel ok 
And I start to feel ok 
I start to feel ok 
It’s the price I have to pay

Thursday 9 July 2015

Track of the Day: Frog - Judy Garland

The debut full length record Kind of Blah from New York duo Frog is one of my favorite of 2015 so far (read my full review of it for London in Stereo). It was a brilliantly rough-around-the-edges exercise in catharsis and nostalgia.

This is characterised perfectly in the stunning and sentimental song and video for 'Judy Garland'. "When she died it broke the last vestige of the 1940s America that everyone deep down still loved" explained Bateman of the vaudevillian icon.

Watch the touching music video from Portland director Alex Coppola.

"excuse me darlin' to disturb you 
could you spare a bit of what the lord's left for you 
bless your solemn unending virtue 
lest your savior up desert you."