I have a complicated and highly-personalized method of discovering new music.
One eskimO* is my latest "discovery", and today I'm loving the song
"Amazing" in particular. Curious?
Two weeks ago...
Listening to Steph's mix echo on the car speakers as we glide down PCH on a blissful afternoon, a song comes on and catches my ear. I ask "Is this new James Blunt?"
"No. One eskimO", she responds.
"Really? His vocals sound like James Blunt."
A few minutes pass, and I drop back into my own thoughts, snapping photos as we coast along. Another song catches my ear and I ask,
"This is James Blunt, right."
"Still One eskimO", Steph responds.
"Really? Does James sing in One eskimO?"(At this point, she pretty much wants to throw me out of the car, and I make a mental note that is lost somewhere between Long Beach and Boston to check out their music.)
A week later...
As I'm falling asleep listening to
MVY Radio, I hear a song that I like. It's called "Kandi" by a band named
one eskimO. As the song ends, I wonder how I will remember to look them up in the morning. Then my friend Jess comes on-air, and I make yet another mental note to ask her in the morning over Facebook, who the band was that was playing as she got to work the night before.
Next morning...
Mental notes getting lost everywhere. But for some reason midday, the name of the song "Kandi" resonates, and I go searching on iTunes. Lightbulb!
I think, "Hey, this stuff is pretty good...and it's $5.99 for the whole album. It's risky, but I can invest six dollars in a new band I may end up hating."
Luckily, I am loving the album. And that's how my musical discoveries tend to happen these days. With the loss of record stores where I could walk in and say, "I heard this band, the vocals sound like James Blunt, can you tell me the name?", it takes me that long (sometimes longer) for music to saturate to the point that the name and the music join.
Got a better method or story of discovery? I'd LOVE to hear it!
*Side note: there better be a really good reason for spelling your band name One eskimO. Otherwise it's like one of those girls who spells their name Typhanie, instead of Tiffany, with a heart in place of the dot above the "i".