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As is so often the way with my televisual obsessions, my current all-consuming love of Skins has bled into both my reading and listening to a ridiculous extent. I've read nothing but fan fiction for, erm rather more weeks than I care to admit - and given that fan fiction is, almost by definition, at least fifty percent smut, I'm not entirely proud of this fact - and virtually every album I've bought has found its way into my consciousness either directly from the screen (Florence and the Machine being the obvious example) or through various fan mixes (Killers and Muse (because, hey, Super Massive Blackhole really does rock, rather a lot) or fic tie-ins (Death Cab For Cutie's Transatlanticism (via the rather fabulous Sivi's story of the same name) and The Matthew Good Band (from the same writer's mix 'small things like cut strings' for her Fate is Overgrown).
Arguably the most curious of my recent discoveries is Susanna and the Magical Orchestra's album List of Lights and Buoys, direct from the soundtrack of episode 6, season 3.
( Extremely vague virtual non-spoilers-for-Skins-season3-no-names-or-specifics-at-all-really-but-you-know-just-a-warning-just-in-case-you're-as-ridiculously-anal-about-these-things-as-I-am behind the cut )
The song in question is 'Believer'. Musically minimalist, icily beautiful, lyrically devastating, a perfect snowflake, almost too delicate to exist yet utterly wonderful; it melds so perfectly with both the scene and the personalities of the characters involved, it's almost impossible to believe that it wasn't written for the purpose.
And when there's a review like this for the album on Amazon? Especially that last paragraph:-
"No barrel of laughs then, but in the right context, say if you're stuck in a log cabin in the middle of a forest with only a bottle of vodka, a bottomless well of despair and some unnamed horror creeping around in the snow outside for company, an essential listen..."
Really, how could I resist?
Arguably the most curious of my recent discoveries is Susanna and the Magical Orchestra's album List of Lights and Buoys, direct from the soundtrack of episode 6, season 3.
( Extremely vague virtual non-spoilers-for-Skins-season3-no-names-or-specifics-at-all-really-but-you-know-just-a-warning-just-in-case-you're-as-ridiculously-anal-about-these-things-as-I-am behind the cut )
The song in question is 'Believer'. Musically minimalist, icily beautiful, lyrically devastating, a perfect snowflake, almost too delicate to exist yet utterly wonderful; it melds so perfectly with both the scene and the personalities of the characters involved, it's almost impossible to believe that it wasn't written for the purpose.
And when there's a review like this for the album on Amazon? Especially that last paragraph:-
"No barrel of laughs then, but in the right context, say if you're stuck in a log cabin in the middle of a forest with only a bottle of vodka, a bottomless well of despair and some unnamed horror creeping around in the snow outside for company, an essential listen..."
Really, how could I resist?
