LISTEN TO IT #74: I’LL BUY YOU OUT
May. 14th, 2013 09:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogSometimes I find the damnedest things via record store listening stations.
Like the new album from Taiwanese singer/songwriter Joanna Wang.
I’d never heard of her, and as her new album was on the same listening station as a couple of bossanova chillout-lounge comps, I hadn’t planned on checking it out. But then I got bored, and took a closer look, and I saw the title of the album: Galaxy Crisis: The Strangest Midnight Broadcast.
So I put on the headphones.
And was charmed.
Ostensibly it’s a concept album with videogames as the central theme, with some tracks serving as soundtracks for videogames that don’t exist. (There’s even a couple of theme songs to non-existent TV shows that, if they did exist, would probably have been produced by Gerry Anderson in the 70s). And Wang – who writes and sings in English – has a very playful approach to her lyrics.
There’s a lot of reference points here, from Regina Spector, They Might Be Giants and Sparks to The Bird and The Bee, Pizzicato 5 and Barry Gray – not to mention old 8-bit videogame music. If any of the above appeals to you, this is worth checking out.
Listen.
Jingle jangle in my pocket,
This is dF
Like the new album from Taiwanese singer/songwriter Joanna Wang.
I’d never heard of her, and as her new album was on the same listening station as a couple of bossanova chillout-lounge comps, I hadn’t planned on checking it out. But then I got bored, and took a closer look, and I saw the title of the album: Galaxy Crisis: The Strangest Midnight Broadcast.
So I put on the headphones.
And was charmed.
Ostensibly it’s a concept album with videogames as the central theme, with some tracks serving as soundtracks for videogames that don’t exist. (There’s even a couple of theme songs to non-existent TV shows that, if they did exist, would probably have been produced by Gerry Anderson in the 70s). And Wang – who writes and sings in English – has a very playful approach to her lyrics.
There’s a lot of reference points here, from Regina Spector, They Might Be Giants and Sparks to The Bird and The Bee, Pizzicato 5 and Barry Gray – not to mention old 8-bit videogame music. If any of the above appeals to you, this is worth checking out.
Listen.
Jingle jangle in my pocket,
This is dF
