Genius

Enkel men otroligt hjärtskärande musik och djupa känslor i Perfume Genius låttexter. Att han dessutom gjort allting där hemma gör ingenting.

En anekdot från NME's blogg om Perfume Genius:

"Apparently not-so-long-ago the computer that housed his entire recorded works crashed, destroying every single bit of music he'd ever worked on. Discovering this he emails his record label late at night to notify them of the situation. Promptly they begin a series of panicked attempts to get in contact with him, leaving numerous increasingly worried and exasperated answer machine messages, texts and emails for him, inquiring as to what on earth they were all going to do? To which, after some time, they eventually recieved a single, calm, collected reply, reassuring: 'Don't worry guys, I can re-record the songs. I still feel the same way.'

Perfume Genius – Learning

No one will answer your prayers until you take off that dress
No one will hear all your crying until you take your last breath
But you will learn to mind me
And you will learn to survive me

Your father before you and your sister too, your husband blah blah blah blah, you.

Perfume Genius – Mr. Peterson

My work came back from class
With notes attached
Of a place and time
Or how my body kept him up at night

He let me smoke weed in his truck
If I could convince him I loved him enough
Enough, enough, enough, enough

He made me a tape of Joy Division
He told there was a part of him missing
When I was sixteen
He jumped off a building

Mr Peterson
I know you were ready to go
I hope there's room for you up above
Or down below.

B-b-b-batcaves!

Ett band jag lyssnat på ganska länge är det franska electro-punk bandet Kap Bambino. Sångerskan Caroline Martial hör nog till de få kvinnliga artister med attityd som jag är lite småkär i (dit hör också Emily Haines från Metric m.fl). Vet nog inte om Kap Bambinos musik är speciellt bra gjord, bandet beskriver själv sin musik i en intervju som "It's like a mix of electronic music stuff, with rock and roll energy, something like this... and a little bit crap". Kanske det stämmer ganska bra. Caroline beter sig dessutom som en charmig efterbliven duracellkanin på scen, jag skulle knappast tröttna om jag såg dem live.

Urskön fransk accent dessutom

It's the time we had apart to sort things out, just dont ask.

It's a call
I fell into your arms that night
Don't ask
It's the time we had apart to sort things out
Just don't ask
It's the work you saying you're doing
But baby, I don't even ask
It's the love that came undone between us
and nobody ever asks
There's a place and time for everything I know
Don't ask
But when I'm around you still I lose control
Just don't ask
You suggest the struggle goes both ways
but baby, I don't even ask
I just wish you had a little faith
but I'm learning not to ask

Denna låt och video gör mig så nostalgisk och för fram gamla sommarminnen när allt var enkelt.