I’m Getting Married To The Music

Masha Qrella “My Day” – Ah, poor underrated Masha Qrella. Unsolved Remained is too chilly and remote for AAA, too guitar-centric for ambient fans, and not nearly tuneless enough for the freak folk crowd. It’s an album full of songs more appropriate as a soundtrack to a field of melting snow rather than an accompaniment to lattes and wi-fi. Oh misfit album, I love you so. (Click here to buy it from Amazon.)

Kevin Blechdom “What You Wanna Believe” – Also sadly overlooked, but less surprisingly so given its intense weirdness, is Kevin Blechdom’s concept album Eat My Heart Out. The record is a bizarro bipolar off-off-off-off-off-Broadway one-woman-show documenting the singer’s seemingly insurmountable neuroses following a bitter break-up. There are many “confessional” records out there, but few that sound as much like the product of a particularly grueling therapy session, much less homemade musical theatre. Blechdom rapidly cycles through her emotions and rationalizations, sometimes hitting upon moments of clarity, but more often settling into shame, self-flagellation and intense self-loathing. (Click here to buy it from Amazon.)