Daily Listen by Brian Brock

Madeline - The Slow Bang (hear “To Hell And Back”)

It’s friendly music.  You can sit with it for a while, trading inconsequential stories or a few ideas you’ve been mulling over, always with the undercurrent of long-term meaning.

Madeline is a not-the-same-as-her-speaking-voice singer.  You can hear her talking for a few seconds somewhere in the album.  She sounds totally normal, and then starts singing like someone else entirely.  It’s not a result of intense feeling, but rather a removal from that feeling.  Someone like Chan Marshall will become a huge agitated seagull while singing, but it’s not at bottom removed from her standard means of expression.