Vanessa Carlton: C/D?

Miner’s Canary was an odd advance single but an awesome closer

*piano gets sucked into wormhole*

i also really love the blown out full band outro of "future pain." that song really gets to me for some reason. "turn down the lights / drink enough until we see each other right / this place won't bite but it won't save you either / we're going down tonight" - good lyric, great delivery

fridmann did a great job

not sure how "the only way to love"'s lyric/sound/arrangement has the exact same shape of my experience of love, but it does

omg, i'm loving this.
i confess this is the first album i hear of her.

this album is giving me life.

"White Houses" is not just Vanessa's best song (per a recent Brad post elsewhere) but one of the best songs by anyone. That odd mixture of idiosyncracy, economy and generosity that typifies many of Taylor's best recent songs. It really feels like it tells a fully fleshed out story in less than 4 minutes, the narrator growing and learning before your ears.

^^^^^^

I didn't realise Lindsey Buckingham plays guitar on 'White Houses'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh0AvLgkUHY

i'm seeing her at city winery tonight and i'm listening back to the last three records and she is such a fucking great songwriter