Finn – Cloudy Day
The technique of singers who get to the front of successful bands has, most likely, improved through the years. Blame it on technology, years of study and a collective obsession with your Freddie Mercurys and Robert Plants.
What artist making music wouldn’t want to honor the great singers by developing a similarly impressive technique? It’s only natural to want to create something that can sit alongside the works of the truly great.
But maybe we’re all getting a little bit taken for a ride. With so much great singing in rock music, it gets hard to understand if there’s anything worth listening to. What stories are actually being said, and why does everyone sound the same telling them?
Finn’s “Cloudy Day” cleverly sacrifices fancy singing for a focus on streetwise vocals that tell a story and introduce a real character making the rounds. It ends up being far more entertaining. In fact, Finn’s matter-of-factly delivery helps “Cloudy Day” stand out from the stockpile of modern indie-rock tunes. All it takes, as it turns out, is some personality and a story worth being told.
Michael Sanders – impression
There’s gotta be a right combination for getting anything that you desire. But, depending on just what it is that you want, you can bet that the coordinates change. It might just mean that you’ll need to change your smile, tone of voice, and speech every time that you want something new. And should you forget to make the changes? Well, somebody’s just going to laugh in your face.
That face, by the time, is something that experts are concerned with. More specifically, they’re concerned with the way the muscles hang on it, the way that they twist when you’re happy or afraid, and the manner in which they change once they manage to get something really important. If you knew what face readers knew, maybe you’d get what you wanted all the time as well.
Michael Sanders’s “impression” is one of the catchiest garage-pop songs that yours truly has heard in a long time. The hooks are undeniable, and impossible not to rewind this and play it back. But it’s the way that the lead vocals go through the process of denial and realignment with the alibi that make the song truly special. This feels like watching somebody creating their character in front of a mirror. It’s unbelievable right until the moment that the lines have been said enough times that it becomes the truth.
