Luscious Life, I Need You Today

Bari Ziperstein - Untitled (2007)
[from "Hand cut photographs - St. Vincent De Paul"]

Patrick Watson - Luscious Life (mp3): I honestly had no expectations when I picked this album "Close To Paradise" out of the mail, but it's as grand as any of the best albums released this year. Clean Chris Martin falsettos summersalt into Antony Hegarty unbridaled wailings. Piano chords pulse into frenzied tambourine quivers. And it's all wrapped in an unassuming orange bubble wrap envelope and sent for $1.24. [buy]