MP3: Namur - Marching
2006 has been an amazing year for dark and dreamy pop and Namur's "Songs from the valley of Baca" is one of the best examples of the genre. You can call it a shoegazer revival if you want, but I think that all the sounds I've been hearing are something completely new and different. It may be a lot of things, but it's certainly not retro. Anyhow, despite releasing one of the year's best albums, Namur mainman David Åhlén decided recently that it was time to retire the name and move on with something new: Father of Levi. Naturally, I wanted to know more, so I asked him why. Read more: [click here]
"Marching" is the one of the only songs on the album that delivers immediate gratification out of context. That might sound like a bad thing, but I assure you it's not. "Songs from the valley of Baca" is very much an album, not just a collection of songs or singles. Each track flows effortlessly into the other and weave together to create a much greater listening experience. It's becoming rarer and rarer to find music that achieves this sort of cohesiveness nowadays in our post-iPod world. Like I said before: one of the best releases of the year.
Namur - Marching