It's a little known fact that I have a lot of draft posts already written. However, I have many MORE that are completely unwritten except for a video. There exist a subset of those posts that have a date attached to them.
This one was in that subset. It had "2024" attached to it. It was slated for next March.
And I've been staring at this post, at the top of my draft queue, thinking about busting it out early.
Over the past two weeks, I have gotten repeated notifications that Flower Face - real name Ruby McKinnon - is recording the followup to her brilliant 2022 album The Shark In Your Water - released on Nettwork Records, her first experience with a record label
This song, which reminds me slightly of my old Magnus Chord Organ, is beautiful and melancholy and deeply layered. This song, which came out of a long writer's block and a depressed period for the singer/songwriter, makes me think of Mazzy Star, or even a little bit of a Cocteau Twins influence. It's haunting, and fitting for today..
Also, the sharp tone shift at about 1:36 will wake you up.
The Shark In Your Water has made me a pretty big fan of what Flower Face is doing in music, and I find myself listening to her music a lot lately. This is why I uncorked this one for post #1500. It took me more than eight years to get to 1000. It took me a little over two to get to 1500 - and I wanted to feature a great artist I had discovered in that time frame.
So, I guess I need a new Flower Face post for next March.
Anyway, here she is, performing the song live. You can see the emotion she brings to the song a lot more clearly here on her face, even as you hear it in her voice.
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