Stringfellow intro … very funny, shiockingly funny. Ghost in the Mirror / Sad Birthday wonderful syncopated rhythms enjoyed them both. Mersault was like fingernails scraping a chalkboard but cant stop listening, ambivalence. I don’t hear anger, St Vitus’ Dance ia a more likely cause.

My favorite… Simone White, The violin and the quiet lyrics, this song glides and spins like an ice-skater in slow motion, a sweet ,sleepy mood. This is art. Liz Eisenberg’s track fits with Soimone’s. As usual you have taken a a handful of jig-saw puzzle pieces and assembled them perfectly , to quote you ” I doff my hat to you”

The Tick bite made you angry? … thats Potomac fever my boy! Still for being soall the blather about being so angry the show was very calm and soothing, how do you do it?

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PS Salt water

You’ve managed to craft this show so that I kept thinking my “winner” song was up and then the next one would knock it down by being even better. Alexi Murdoch at the end was just a killer. Why have I not been following/stalking him before now?

Other highlights: Cancel the Astronauts (whose CD I have on my pile of things to be reviewed), Bombadil of course, that new Builders & Butchers song is wonderful, and the Brain Jacket Letdown selection did make me want to buy that record.

Windmill, Londonblackmarket, One Hundred Hurricanes were all good, very good. And that lullabye sounding track from Liz Isenberg with the banjo intro was gorgeous. I did think Simone White was my winner, honestly. She has a hint of Ricky Lee Jones to her that I adore. But, alas, Alexi Murdoch blew me away.

The Meursault song might work it’s way into my brain eventually only because I can imagine it with better production, sounding more balanced and even angrier!

xoxo, Tart