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March 01, 2007
Posted by Kyle
I've decide to add a new category to music bath which is sure to be not used ever, just like all the others!
This category, featured artists, will be a good place for me to point you in the direction of artists that you really have to hear.
So, it's no secret, I'm a huge fan of sad bastard music. With that in mind, I think that New York's Chris Garneau is the perfect first artist for this new category.
Chris' CD, Music For Tourists, came out this January on Absolutely Kosher and there is no good excuse for not owning it yet.
That opening track, Castle-Time, starts the CD's heart-wrenching mood perfectly with lyrics like "my teacher died/even the frying pan cried/rain fell according to castle-time/I was only nine."
Death shows up again in the track "We Don't Try" which starts "you say you want to die/cause the things don't work out right/but you don't even try/though neither do I" and actually kind of gets way more depressing from there.
Actually, you really won't find too uplifting of a song on this CD. Wallow the whole way through.
It is rare that music actually makes my throat close up and tears well in my eyes, but Chris' music does just that. His beautiful voice is smooth and raspy at the same time, and the low somber piano tracks breaks my heart in just the right way.
Sounds Like: Damien Rice, Joe Purdy, Snow Patrol, Ryan Auffenberg, Jeremy Messersmith (and if you haven't heard them, GO LISTEN NOW!)
Check out his music video for "Relief." Great song, great video, and Chris is a cutie too, huh?
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COMMENTS I liked the song...I always knew you were into drag queens. I'm kind of confused about the lyrics. Is he singing "you say you want to die" or "you say you are on a diet"? some places say it's the latter, but it doesn't make much sense. Kyle, fp - I'm not sure which lyrics you mean. I listened and didn't hear that at all. Here are the lyrics for the song - i saw the sea come in chorus: i heard your good old word chorus i didn't go to see the city nose to nose i saw the sea come in |
