Something about The Carpenters
"This is absolutely unacceptable. You should have told me this before I married you." Arms crossed, pouty face. But I know she's joking. Casually mentioning that I actually like several of the songs by The Carpenters, I get the full HOW DARE YOU from my loving wife. She has good taste, so I accept her position. Karen Carpenter was a tragic figure with a beautiful voice. The Carpenters wrote music that many would call anodyne, or sappy. Very much a product of their time, the sort of white bread pop songs they produced are easy to ridicule today in our aggressively cynical age. Ok, so I find as I get older that this sort of thing is more appealing to me. Gen X gets to slide into middle age sentimentality the same as the Boomers did. So it was with much joy that I recently discovered a band annoying called Weyes Blood, fronted by singer-songwriter Natalie Mering. Their latest album, Titanic Rising, is pretty great! Great if you suspect that Mering called the spirit o