One of my mental New Year resolutions was to listen to more new music in 2010. So far I think I’m fairing better than last year and I have my phone to thank for that. For those of you who have applications on your phones you might know about Shazam, which I have to say is totally awesome and helpful for my musical improvement.
Shazam is a little program that lets you record something you’re hearing – it records about 20 seconds for you – and then analyzes what you are listening to. As long as it can figure it out, and it’s quite good, it’ll bring up a link of the song and album and then further links to where you can buy it on itunes or read reviews about it or send a note to yourself about it.
A couple weeks ago I was at Sip and Ship and this catchy little song came on that I just had to get more info about so, boom, Shazam to the rescue! It was a strange sounding song. 80s beat, slightly Davie Bowie sounding vocals in the beginning and then cutting to this totally 70s sounding falsetto. I couldn’t believe the instantaneous mix of genres going on in the song. Anyway, Slanky downloaded the album later that evening for me and it’s totally fun and peppy.
The band is called Empire of the Sun and the song I heard was Walking on a Dream. The group is actually an Australian group classified as electronic but they really mix genres throughout the entire album. I think at least one song also has some live guitar in it. It’s a pretty fun album, though not for all types of listening occasions.
I won’t include lyrics here because a) I don’t know what they are saying anyway and b) this review doesn’t really cover the meaty stuff like what the song’s about and whatnot, i don’t see that as being the point when it sounds fun.
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Very cool, Jody! I love iPhone apps. I want you to know that in spite of my inability to say anything interesting or intelligent about your music posts, I do like reading them a lot! I always feel lame for not being that into music, and appreciate any education at all on the matter!
Ha, well I don’t know if I’m providing much of an education but it’s definitely something I like thinking about when I have the time..