My Favorite Band of All Time
Lovers is without a doubt my favorite band ever.
Visit their Myspace page, and listen to Ginger. Listen all the way through. If you’re not completely heartbroken after listening to this song, well you have no heart.
Their fourth album is coming out soon, and work has commenced on the fifth. Ginger is from the first album, my personal favorite (along with the second) but all of their/her albums are amazing. From the Boston Phoenix:
Some albums, like dreams, or some books, possess a perfect, powerful, unshakable internal logic that evaporates in daylight. This is one of them. I’ve found myself telling people that Lovers are simple and pure, even though their music is anything but. Tender manifestos and lullaby fables for surrealist romantics, Carolyn Berk’s songs are full of breathless melancholy and a sinking, infinite sadness. In them you hear hints of the circus-funeral magic-realist run-on folk song of Neutral Milk Hotel, the dreamy twilight grandeur of Mazzy Star, Bright Eyes’ last-gasp heartstring soliloquies, and the ghost-haunted majesty of Magnetic Fields’ loneliest highways. But I’ll be damned if Berk isn’t a more entrancing spell caster than any of them.
