Exactly What Becomes Of Us

Parenthetical Girls “A Song For Ellie Greenwich” – Aside from the hollow, airy silence at the core of the arrangement, the vocals are the calmest element in this composition. Suitably, they are written with some perspective on the past, whereas the rest of the music taps into the fraught emotions that the singer only now understands in hindsight. I’m especially fond of the instrumental bridge, which eases up on the doomed romanticism momentarily for a few breaths of relief, and a gorgeous sparkly glockenspiel (?) figure offset by clunky (yet gracefully arranged) percussive noise. (Click here to buy it from Tomlab.)

Elsewhere: When my friend Heather D’Angelo is not writing music and touring the world with her band, she studies Astrophysics at Columbia University. Her new blog Hello Poindexter covers both sides of her professional life, and the occasions when the two overlap. She also interviews scientists and other interesting people. Please check it out.