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fullupwithfire) wrote2018-12-28 10:03 am
fullupwithfire) wrote2018-12-28 10:03 am
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December talking time returns!
For teaotter for December days: A song or artist that you're listening to a lot, and what you like about it/them.
Have I talked about my love for Dessa before? ...Probably, but I'm gonna go again. The thing that really tends to grab me on her stuff is the lyrics -- there is so much gorgeous imagery and fantastic wordplay going on in the lyrics. I've been doing Chime while I work a fair bit, and there's so many amazing lines in there. (I've also always been really fond of I'm in a mood, new shoes, and a bulletproof dress and you slept in my bed, and if I kept quiet I could hear all the voices in your head.)
That's not to say the music isn't amazing. And the vocals. I'm not... great at reviewing music, I feel like I don't have the vocabulary, but she just hits so many emotional notes so well. It's so pretty when it's right, and so powerful when it's right, and I love everything I've heard from her.
Recommendations, for anyone who hasn't heard and wants a place to start (and a couple of favorite lives, because I can):
The entirety of Chime is just brilliant, but Good Grief is the song I'm most likely to get stuck on.
I am really fond of this Bandcamp-only version of Matches to Paper Dolls -- the original song is great too, but I really like this version
Sound the Bells is one of the most gorgeous things I've ever heard
Children's Work is, I believe, the song I was shown that got me to start sliding into her discography
The Crow is probably the song most likely to stab me in very personal emotional spots (except maybe Annabelle. I just... don't listen to Annabelle anymore.)
And If & When is technically a Doomtree song, but I can't not include it -- it's creepy and beautiful
As for live stuff, it looks like I've lost a lot of the links I had saved, but:
Here is a good recording of a spoken word piece transitioning into Hallelujah. I've seen a few versions of this, but I can't find the one I originally knew; but it's lovely.
Here is a really pretty live recording of Dessa and Aby Wolf doing Call Off Your Ghost.
Seamstress is a gorgeous and creepy song (at least to me; I think some people don't find it as sketchy, but oh man, I do), and it's fascinating to watch variants of, because the way it's sung can really change the entire mood and character of the singer -- and to me it's really concentrated in the emphasis on one line. Compare the album version of it was a mercy kill, no/it was a suicide, no/it was an accident, no/well at least I tried to this one where it's even more... almost low key, and the last line is almost a dismissal; or this concert version, where the entire performance is chillingly intense and then lines are practically shouted by the end.
The other thing I've been listening to a lot is Paul Shapera's New Albion albums, particularly Miss Helen's Weird West Cabaret. I'll do this one shorter, but if you're interesting in a sprawling verse with compelling characters, necromancy, unrequited love, narration, war, spies, and mysterious messages from the ether told through musical albums on Bandcamp, consider giving the first one a shot: Dolls of New Albion, A Steampunk Opera.
(Be aware that the musicals tend to hit some triggery issues; for Dolls in particular, if you have suicide issues, you may want to skip, or at least ask for details first, which I'm happy to give.)
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I know at least a few people are doing the January talking meme instead of December this year. I... am still not doing day-by-day assignments, not least because I'm gonna be away from home for a good chunk of the beginning of January. However, I've still got questions left to go, so I'll be posting in January, and I'm happy to take more -- if you want to throw me questions/topics here or on the original post, feel free!
teaotter for December days: A song or artist that you're listening to a lot, and what you like about it/them.Have I talked about my love for Dessa before? ...Probably, but I'm gonna go again. The thing that really tends to grab me on her stuff is the lyrics -- there is so much gorgeous imagery and fantastic wordplay going on in the lyrics. I've been doing Chime while I work a fair bit, and there's so many amazing lines in there. (I've also always been really fond of I'm in a mood, new shoes, and a bulletproof dress and you slept in my bed, and if I kept quiet I could hear all the voices in your head.)
That's not to say the music isn't amazing. And the vocals. I'm not... great at reviewing music, I feel like I don't have the vocabulary, but she just hits so many emotional notes so well. It's so pretty when it's right, and so powerful when it's right, and I love everything I've heard from her.
Recommendations, for anyone who hasn't heard and wants a place to start (and a couple of favorite lives, because I can):
The entirety of Chime is just brilliant, but Good Grief is the song I'm most likely to get stuck on.
I am really fond of this Bandcamp-only version of Matches to Paper Dolls -- the original song is great too, but I really like this version
Sound the Bells is one of the most gorgeous things I've ever heard
Children's Work is, I believe, the song I was shown that got me to start sliding into her discography
The Crow is probably the song most likely to stab me in very personal emotional spots (except maybe Annabelle. I just... don't listen to Annabelle anymore.)
And If & When is technically a Doomtree song, but I can't not include it -- it's creepy and beautiful
As for live stuff, it looks like I've lost a lot of the links I had saved, but:
Here is a good recording of a spoken word piece transitioning into Hallelujah. I've seen a few versions of this, but I can't find the one I originally knew; but it's lovely.
Here is a really pretty live recording of Dessa and Aby Wolf doing Call Off Your Ghost.
Seamstress is a gorgeous and creepy song (at least to me; I think some people don't find it as sketchy, but oh man, I do), and it's fascinating to watch variants of, because the way it's sung can really change the entire mood and character of the singer -- and to me it's really concentrated in the emphasis on one line. Compare the album version of it was a mercy kill, no/it was a suicide, no/it was an accident, no/well at least I tried to this one where it's even more... almost low key, and the last line is almost a dismissal; or this concert version, where the entire performance is chillingly intense and then lines are practically shouted by the end.
The other thing I've been listening to a lot is Paul Shapera's New Albion albums, particularly Miss Helen's Weird West Cabaret. I'll do this one shorter, but if you're interesting in a sprawling verse with compelling characters, necromancy, unrequited love, narration, war, spies, and mysterious messages from the ether told through musical albums on Bandcamp, consider giving the first one a shot: Dolls of New Albion, A Steampunk Opera.
(Be aware that the musicals tend to hit some triggery issues; for Dolls in particular, if you have suicide issues, you may want to skip, or at least ask for details first, which I'm happy to give.)
---
I know at least a few people are doing the January talking meme instead of December this year. I... am still not doing day-by-day assignments, not least because I'm gonna be away from home for a good chunk of the beginning of January. However, I've still got questions left to go, so I'll be posting in January, and I'm happy to take more -- if you want to throw me questions/topics here or on the original post, feel free!