Fir Cone Children x Liisu – St. Vincent
There are still great mysteries to be discovered in between the chord progressions of loud rock artists. There continues to be an all-powerful, and nearly unexplainable energy in what mean, old guitar feedback can produce.
And, no matter how many times you go and see a live rock band playing, you’re unlikely to find the appropriate answer. It’s almost like a spell, and while you should have found out by now how not to fall for it, you can’t.
You’re not alone in feeling this way. The good news is that every generation discovers these secrets in the same way, and it affects them in the very same manner as Fir Cone Children & Liisu are quick to tell us.
On the one hand, the sound of the single “St. Vincent” pays tribute to the mesmeric effects of imaginative, daring rock music. On the other hand, it also pays homage to the ritual itself, to finding out that you’re never going to walk away from the power of this art once it has been shown to you.
Fleur Bleu·e – All the Little Beings
Most of us are on the go. Most of us have some place other than the one we are in right now where we’d rather be. Musicians aren’t any different. The working musician’s life, after all, equates to being shoved into a tax to a hotel room for months at a time. It’s hard under these conditions to build a real connection with any of the palaces in which you are living.
It also makes it hard to write songs about the places where you’ve been. Ask a touring musician: “So, what did you think about Lille?” and they’ll just stare blankly and tell you that they remember there being a bar there.
Fleur Bleu·e, on the other hand, are all about wasting time for all the right reasons, about finding yourself as part of the great whole. “All the Little Beings” is a mesmeric indie-pop song about the fact that whenever you inhabit a place, you are sharing it with the entirety of its past. It’s a neat concept, and an even greater execution. This, in my estimation, is glorious morning music.
