April 19th, 2006 2:11pm
A Boy Who Plays House And A Girl Who Plays Dead
Persephone’s Bees “Way To Your Heart” – As the spring kicks in and most everyone’s hormones are on full blast, it’s good to have a song that captures the upside of a crush as well as this, with its arrangement flip-flopping between light-hearted cabaret piano and melodramatic rock guitar, and its coy lyrics about the singer’s scheme for seducing the objection of her affections. She’s clearly having fun with the infatuation, but she wouldn’t mind taking a shortcut, and so she pleads – show me the way to your heart! (Click here for the official Persephone’s Bees site.)
Pony Up “Only Feelgood” – Lyrics about mixed feelings and quiet paranoia are a perfect match for these rainy day chords and bittersweet leads, especially when they throw in that droning accordion keyboard setting, which may as well be the official musical shorthand for ambivalence. Most interestingly, the fear in this song is of miserable domesticity, as stories and scenarios play out in the singer’s head, forcing her to confront whether she’s actually unhappy with her relationship, or if she’s just afraid of it limiting her options later on. (Click here to pre-order it from Dim Mak.)
Elsewhere:
Marathon Packs has an mp3 of the Village People’s painfully catchy “Sex Over The Phone,” as well as a YouTube embed of its brilliant, incredibly hilarious video.
Who Needs Radio has a very pretty song from Italy’s Tanakh.