Keep Your Ears and Eyes Open

Lonelady has been around for a while and it looks like the perfect combination of talent and perseverance is paying off, not so long ago she was interviewed by Paul Morley for The Guardian newspaper which you can see here. Her album Nerve Up has been out for a while, zoom on over to her Myspace for more info.

Song Of The Day No.11

Red

by Elbow (Asleep In The Back, 2001)

This, the first single off Elbow's Mercury Prize nominated debut album, circles and soars throughout, invariably catching heat spots and raising gracefully before swooping down and around a bit more. The gently gliding strings are accompanied by revolving piano keys and a swirling layered production that is pinned to the ground by a steady, syncopated and ever-present drum beat that doesn't allow the song to lose direction or float off too far.

Guy Garvey's now familiar melancholic tones open themselves up on the chorus to full effect singing “You burn too bright, you live too fast” emoting a truly mournful, despondent atmosphere. The outro is entirely instrumental, as the cymbal crashes and drum beats fall away the acoustic guitar and strings take us in for the final approach and after the song has executed it's smooth landing you are left with a fulfilling sense of peace and well-being.

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