Just Writing About “Songs For A Sinking Ship” By April Smith & The Great Picture Show…

I like music a lot and listen to it all day. So sporadically, over the next several days, I’m going to be writing about the twelve albums I’m listening to the most lately. They’re not in any certain order because I don’t think you can judge music that way. This is the just how I wrote them down. Actually, they’re probably in alphabetical order by artist name, since I simply parsed my Rhapsody library to find them.

And, for the record, I’m by no means under the delusion that I’m a music critic or expert. All I intend to do is communicate why I like them while trying not to judge them esthetically. The first album is “Songs For A Sinking Ship” by April Smith & The Great Picture Show…

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I’m a sucker for fast-paced melodies or songs with long lines and lots of singing, as if the rhyming never ends even when the pattern or melody changes. There’s a lot of that on this album. It’s a little folksy, which I don’t usually go for, but unlike usual, the lyrics aren’t pedestrian and the music isn’t boring and repetitive and repetitive and…

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My favorite song is “Colors.” It has one of the best choruses anywhere and each line, word and syllable flows perfectly into the next. “Wow and Flutter” is great, also. It has a bouncy strumming intro (which sounds familiar) and the first line really grabs you, which is the standard for most of these songs. “Terrible Things” is another highlight, but the whole album is consistently fun.

Friday, December 30th, 2011

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