blow up some stars

I've really grown to love Steven Delopoulos' album Straightjacket.

It's a really quixotic art/singer-songwriter affair. The music is largely one-man-and-a-guitar based but adds in all kinds of orchestration. There's even a kind of off-broadway chanted theatrical number. In fact, in many ways, I could see the album being the music to a really, really cool and engaging modern dance concert. The lyrics aren't obscure, but they're not obvious, either. If you don't think about it, you largley get what he's trying to say. If you think about it, it doesn't all make a lot of sense. Impressionistic, then, I guess. But not in a Michael Stipe kind of way. More in a Bob Dylan meets Leo Kottke kind of way, if that makes any sense at all. Poetic, rather than lyrical, but with the quirky honesty of someone who knows what it means to wear out his shoes from walking.

So, I leave you with the official video for the first track from Straightjacket. It's a slightly different mix than the album version and the video's not as good as the song, but that's not really news these days, is it? Enjoy the song.