Admittedly, this won't be for everybody, but I dug it...so here it is. Jeanny Has Had A Nightmare list their hometown as "Earth", Bandcamp says Texas, and Google wants to know if I want their home website translated from German to English. Well that's seriously vague. They're an Alt Rock/Art Pop band who, of late, have been inspired and influenced by Ana Calvi. On their recent "On Christmas" single, one of the two tracks is an instrumental cover of Calvi's "Rider To The Sea". It's plenty cool and eclectic and, if you want to toss it into your pile of Christmas tracks, be my guest, though I'm not seeing it as a Christmas track. Our concern, here, is the vocal track, "The Whiteness Of Snow". An ode to "the silence of winter", "The Whiteness of Snow" is ethereal and calm and paints a picture musically of a late night/early morning walk through new fallen snow when just the slightest breath of wind stirs a few crystals to rise and shimmer like fairy dust. Of course its a metaphor. But I like stuff like this. As I say, not everyone will. The lyrics are poetry--possibly a bit too much so--and my favorite line is "I can see our tracks of then". You gotta love that. Well, I do.
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