I'm not sure what's categorized as "experimental" music these days when a band like Animal Collective has kids wearing their t-shirts. But I always find it interesting when an artist manages to bridge the gap between something pleasant to the ears and something that is downright abstract. The band below has some amazing, amazing songs, and their sound is somewhere between lullabies, folk, electronic, with some hip hop and spoken word thrown in here and there? I don't know, I never really was good at the Rolling Stone descriptions of music. But the band is composed of two sisters, both with amazing voices, and together they're called Cocorosie. This is "Werewolf" (and the video's great too, though it contains a creepy mask):
this scared me a bit. i'm already going to have trouble sleeping after earth's seizure yesterday. damnit.
ReplyDeleteInteresting song. I didn't like the parts with the high-pitched "pretty voice" as much as the parts with the distorted-sounding John Lennon-esque voice. It has a kind of ominous drive to it that draws upon the dream/nightmare feel of the lyrics. Did the two sisters sing the two different parts?
ReplyDeleteAnd the video isn't bad either, but that's probably mostly because of the unique-looking raven beauty of the girl in it.
yeah, the two sisters sang the two different parts. they often have that lullaby/creeping combination to their songs.
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