Song identification
Sept 4, 2011 1:09:26 GMT -5
Post by Nicholas2.0 on Sept 4, 2011 1:09:26 GMT -5
There's a current (recent? brand new?) song that I heard on my semi-local unmonitored, computer-run Alternative station last night and, unbelievably, tonight as well. I know I've heard it before, because it wasn't completely unfamiliar, but I can't, for the life of me, remember what it is, if I ever knew in the first place.
It's a mid-tempo song that I can only describe as indie pop. It might be an indie rock band, but I sure don't remember the song having any guitar. The main melody is mostly descending (its first note is definitely the highest). It's played instrumentally on a set of bells (i.e., the tiny xylophone kind, not hand bells). I don't know that there is a lead vocalist; the vocals sound like a children's choir who sing a continuation of the bell melody in the chorus. The radio station has a weak signal usually and since none of the "children" were right up close to the microphone, lyrics were very hard to pick out, let alone a whole line of them that I could hear well enough to type into Google. Vocally, the only comparisons that were coming to mind were Foster the People a la "Helena Beat," Broken Bells a la "The Ghost Inside," The Naked and Famous, or MGMT.
The best point of reference I could come up with for the melody, as far as rhythm and tempo are concerned, is the piano line in Phantom Planet's "California." Similar idea, anyway.
Any ideas what this is? I dug the song.
It's a mid-tempo song that I can only describe as indie pop. It might be an indie rock band, but I sure don't remember the song having any guitar. The main melody is mostly descending (its first note is definitely the highest). It's played instrumentally on a set of bells (i.e., the tiny xylophone kind, not hand bells). I don't know that there is a lead vocalist; the vocals sound like a children's choir who sing a continuation of the bell melody in the chorus. The radio station has a weak signal usually and since none of the "children" were right up close to the microphone, lyrics were very hard to pick out, let alone a whole line of them that I could hear well enough to type into Google. Vocally, the only comparisons that were coming to mind were Foster the People a la "Helena Beat," Broken Bells a la "The Ghost Inside," The Naked and Famous, or MGMT.
The best point of reference I could come up with for the melody, as far as rhythm and tempo are concerned, is the piano line in Phantom Planet's "California." Similar idea, anyway.
Any ideas what this is? I dug the song.
