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prunesquallormdAs 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.
The scene itself - generally known as the lake scene, and if you've seen it you'll know exactly the one I mean, and if you haven't, well really, why not? - is nothing less than extraordinarily beautiful; sweet and tender and lovely, and the emotional culmination of 5 and a half episodes of sheer yearning. It is, visually and emotionally, glorious.
So often, especially for DVD, where the cost of music licensing is such an issue, the soundtrack seems to be an afterthought (because really, the person who decided to replace Lily Allen's actually pretty fab and entirely appropriate 'The Fear' with the awful, awful, awful 'I Kissed a Girl' by Katie Perry(I mean really? Katie Perry? Jesus. I actually lack the words) for the kiss in episode 4? What were you thinking? Were you thinking at all? Have you listened to that bloody song? How did you think it was fitting? How?). For the lake scene though, the gods were smiling.
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.
The scene itself - generally known as the lake scene, and if you've seen it you'll know exactly the one I mean, and if you haven't, well really, why not? - is nothing less than extraordinarily beautiful; sweet and tender and lovely, and the emotional culmination of 5 and a half episodes of sheer yearning. It is, visually and emotionally, glorious.
So often, especially for DVD, where the cost of music licensing is such an issue, the soundtrack seems to be an afterthought (because really, the person who decided to replace Lily Allen's actually pretty fab and entirely appropriate 'The Fear' with the awful, awful, awful 'I Kissed a Girl' by Katie Perry(I mean really? Katie Perry? Jesus. I actually lack the words) for the kiss in episode 4? What were you thinking? Were you thinking at all? Have you listened to that bloody song? How did you think it was fitting? How?). For the lake scene though, the gods were smiling.
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?
