So THAT's who it is/seems like!

I was sort of indifferent to this record, but now that it's never going to stop raining (ever), hey!, it's a Rainy Spring Day Record to be reckoned with!

My initial and subsiding misgiving was with the vocal style of the main girl, in that she's sort of sharp and brassy in a way that I couldn't pin down; who did she remind me of?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxmrKav8gUM

Then after many repeated listenings, it dawned on me:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-6stBqU4Mg


Also, thoroughly unrelated, but for the feyness, here's the most Marr-tastic track since, I dunno, "Getting Away With It," though the video isn't all that spectacular*:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Hy4bT0ESfc

* they should have gone with my idea of showing faces (filmed in such tight close-up as to be pretty much abstractions) of adult film performers at the moment of, um, Release, for that added Warhol pop-art movie Bl-wjobness. And rain, lots and lots of rain...

Maybe next single they'll listen to me!