The Music Box.
Entries about the music I like.
Everything & 1 Half // Music of the Week / WS 7 Mar 2021
It’s all been a little everything and a half last week. Musically, I deviated from the previous three weeks of punk, and explored the many worlds of electronic music. I’m likely to occupy this space for a while longer. In fact, but for Chumbawumba’s Tubthumping, you’re going to find virtually no obvious references to punk and its offshoots in this week’s playlist.
Kelly Lee Owens — Inner Song
There’s two things Kelly Lee Owens’s Inner Song gets on point, leading it to ace the distractingly good test(TM) for good music in the Age Of Distraction. One is the textures of its instruments and how they evolve, the second is the answers it gives for the age-old question of popular music: how to write a good hook? These are remarkably difficult things to do, especially for an album of minimal electronica.
Kelly Lee Owens — On
Kelly Lee Owens’s second album, Inner Song, was slated for release on May 1, 2020, but was delayed due to Covid. Last week, she released the fantastic single, On.