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[423] now, as we're running a little ahead of schedule, there's just time for one extra item
Got a shockingly good night's sleep (five whole hours!), but it was a frigid, slippery walk to work, and I'm feeling logy.
Should do inbox things today. Mostly I'm just committed to staring into the middle distance for a while, though.
The Substance nabbing five Golden Globe nominations pretty much locks Love Lies Bleeding in as my favourite movie of the year, unless Nosferatu comes out swinging. Not as a contrarian thing, necessarily, I'm very happy when things I love get critical love, but it also means those things then need my love a little bit less. Even if the Globes remain a joke (NO, MOM, I CANNOT EXPLAIN TO YOU WHY HERETIC IS A MUSICAL OR COMEDY, JUST BE HAPPY HE GOT THE NOD).
Wikipedia Sez: Casanova is the fourth studio album by Northern Irish chamber pop band the Divine Comedy. It was released in 1996 by Setanta Records, and it happened to be the band's commercial breakthrough. It was certified Gold in the UK in July 1997, aided by the release of the album's first single, "Something for the Weekend", which reached No. 13 on the charts. Two other singles released from the album, "Becoming More Like Alfie" and "The Frog Princess", charted at No. 27 and No. 15, respectively.
Genre: Pop/Rock
Styles: Alternative Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Chamber Pop
Release Date: April 29th, 1996
Prior Familiarity: None.
What I Did While Listening: Kicked it after a shower, right at the end of my last day off. Put in a big-ass Amazon order for mom's Christmas gift and also a bunch of essentials that I won't get for well over a week because the couriers are all slammed, but please, National Post, keep telling me how nobody even notices that Canada Post has been on strike for a month.
Verdict: It starts off on kind of a weird note, but it won me over very quickly after that. Halfway through, I had already consciously put it in the same bucket where I keep Scott Walker and Ute Lemper, that extremely theatrical style of chamber pop that I absolutely adore in a way I did not realize before this project. And then I looked the album up afterwards!
"Casanova exemplifies the influence of American singer-songwriter Scott Walker: "Through a Long & Sleepless Night" shares the same title as a track from Walker's first solo album, while "The Dogs and the Horses" is reminiscent of the chamber pop musical style of Walker's first four solo albums."
Oh! Well there you go. And then I looked up the band, and noticed that the name of the frontman was already purple and I wondered why I had already looked him up?
"In 2000, he and Joby Talbot contributed four tracks to Ute Lemper's collaboration album, Punishing Kiss."
INCLUDING MY FAVOURITE TRACK FROM THAT ALBUM THAT I STILL SING TO MYSELF CONSTANTLY. For fuck's sake. Should I rewatch Wonka???
Favourite Song: Gonna say A Woman of the World, but there were a handful that really stood out.
Leshia's Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Should do inbox things today. Mostly I'm just committed to staring into the middle distance for a while, though.
The Substance nabbing five Golden Globe nominations pretty much locks Love Lies Bleeding in as my favourite movie of the year, unless Nosferatu comes out swinging. Not as a contrarian thing, necessarily, I'm very happy when things I love get critical love, but it also means those things then need my love a little bit less. Even if the Globes remain a joke (NO, MOM, I CANNOT EXPLAIN TO YOU WHY HERETIC IS A MUSICAL OR COMEDY, JUST BE HAPPY HE GOT THE NOD).
Wikipedia Sez: Casanova is the fourth studio album by Northern Irish chamber pop band the Divine Comedy. It was released in 1996 by Setanta Records, and it happened to be the band's commercial breakthrough. It was certified Gold in the UK in July 1997, aided by the release of the album's first single, "Something for the Weekend", which reached No. 13 on the charts. Two other singles released from the album, "Becoming More Like Alfie" and "The Frog Princess", charted at No. 27 and No. 15, respectively.
Genre: Pop/Rock
Styles: Alternative Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Chamber Pop
Release Date: April 29th, 1996
Prior Familiarity: None.
What I Did While Listening: Kicked it after a shower, right at the end of my last day off. Put in a big-ass Amazon order for mom's Christmas gift and also a bunch of essentials that I won't get for well over a week because the couriers are all slammed, but please, National Post, keep telling me how nobody even notices that Canada Post has been on strike for a month.
Verdict: It starts off on kind of a weird note, but it won me over very quickly after that. Halfway through, I had already consciously put it in the same bucket where I keep Scott Walker and Ute Lemper, that extremely theatrical style of chamber pop that I absolutely adore in a way I did not realize before this project. And then I looked the album up afterwards!
"Casanova exemplifies the influence of American singer-songwriter Scott Walker: "Through a Long & Sleepless Night" shares the same title as a track from Walker's first solo album, while "The Dogs and the Horses" is reminiscent of the chamber pop musical style of Walker's first four solo albums."
Oh! Well there you go. And then I looked up the band, and noticed that the name of the frontman was already purple and I wondered why I had already looked him up?
"In 2000, he and Joby Talbot contributed four tracks to Ute Lemper's collaboration album, Punishing Kiss."
INCLUDING MY FAVOURITE TRACK FROM THAT ALBUM THAT I STILL SING TO MYSELF CONSTANTLY. For fuck's sake. Should I rewatch Wonka???
Favourite Song: Gonna say A Woman of the World, but there were a handful that really stood out.
Leshia's Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐