I'd Marry That Voice returns in style with an ode to the incomparable man from Wild Beasts...
So explicitly emotional are the songs of her recent debut album Youth Novels that they should come packaged with one of those infamous black and white Tipper Stickers. 'Parental Advisory: Contains Love, Loss, Elation, Tragedy, Erotica and Despair'.
The fact that Marling has the ability to utilize her voice in many different styles is perhaps what makes it seem wise beyond its years.
It is thirty years and a month since Sandy Denny fell down the stairs, suffering a fatal brain haemorrhage and bringing a successful singing career...
Imagine my surprise when their carefree frontman Fyfe Dangerfield, sitting in a rocking chair, hair askew, starts the album’s opening track Little Bear and the vast majority of the venue falls into reverent silence. It’s one of the most genuinely expressive, heartfelt performances I’ve heard from a live vocalist in a couple of years.
Roisin’s voice played powerfully across the disjointed background music to utterly seduce me. I was hooked.
I admit I struggled at first to find a voice I’d happily yoke myself to for all eternity. My research, a jaunt to the ‘shuffle...
If you and your chosen voice are in for the long haul however, it is those long winter nights spent curled up on the hire purchase settee that you can’t really afford, when you come to rely upon them the most. You need your voice to be loving, comforting, soothing, and yet remain able to conjure some rock’n’roll good times out of nothing but half a bottle of leftover cherry brandy and Pictionary.
Following on from previous IMTV subject Ray Lamontagne, my choice of voice is that of the former beard monster Caleb Followill of Tennessee-based family band...
If the world holds nothing but doom and gloom or you’re stressing so hard that it hurts, Jónsi’s there to soothe (try Sæglópur). If you’re relaxing in the park staring skyward on a summer day, the clouds will drift by on Jonsi’s falsetto (check out Untitled #2).
