Friday, January 02, 2009

to be fair

I don't have a sweeping disdain for all high range male singing voices, as I might have alluded to in my previous post. In fact, since right around last February or so, I've been listening to Bon Iver pretty much more than anything else. The husband initially caught me in this apparent inconsistency, and dismissed my new favorite music with a sarcastic sneer. But if Justin Vernon depends on falsetto emotion, there's nothing affected and sappy about it. No, I think it's some of the most beautiful music I've ever heard and something about it just creeps into me and sits there and rattles around in a way that makes me feel absolutely supported and known in my lonesomeness. Now I'm probably not telling you anything you don't already know. But just in case you haven't heard it, and have yet to form an opinion, I'll do here what I did in my living room some weeks ago: listen! you have to really listen to this. It's the best music of the whole previous year; so long 2008. (and my husband came around and almost agrees with me).

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I have been loving the Bon Iver this past year as well.

Anonymous said...

April...I find that after I first checked Bon Iver out after reading your post and being unsure about the voice myself, the songs kept creeping back into my head until I became quite fond of them. Thanks! I always love to discover new music and don't always pay attention to what is going on in the music world.

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