SOUNDTRACK: REINA DEL CID-“The Cooling” (Tiny Desk Contest Runner-Up 2015).
Last week, a Tiny Desk Contest winner was announced. This week, All Songs Considered posted ten runners up that they especially liked. And I want to draw extra attention to a couple of them.
I know very little about these bands, so I don’t know if this is Reina del Cid’s normal band or what. But I love the sound of this orchestral chamber pop. There are plenty of chamber pop bands, but there’s something about the melody of this song that works so perfectly with the strings.
There are seven people in the video (Reina is the singer). I love the way the song starts out with some pizzicato guitar and slowly building violin strings. I also love the starts and stops that the song has–very dramatic. And it all works so well with Reina’s voice which doesn’t soar or hit super high notes, rather it is just powerful and strong and very pretty (even when she does an occasional mmm mmm).
When the song builds to its climax, the violins switch to pizzicato and the drums grow louder. It’s quite lovely and I’d like to hear more from her (them). I gather that the new album is coming out in May!
[READ: February 19, 2015] Axe Cop Volume 2
I enjoyed Axe Cop Volume 1 so much I couldn’t wait to jump into Volume 2. But something was different.
This book was made for Dark Horse as a three issue arc. It’s in color and it’s all one long story. Ethan is super proud of it, and I think he should be, it’s pretty impressive that he and his brother (now aged 6) were able to come up with such a huge story.
But I found that like the longer stories in volume 1, I got a little bored by the end of this book. Indeed, I let Clark read the first book (it was placed in the YA book section, but I figured if it was written by a 5-year-old, my nine-year old could read it). He liked the first book but only gave this one a few pages before he gave up. He likes Ask Axe Cop best too. (more…)
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