Interactive Poll: Your Boat Is Burning!

wiz_d_kidd:  Welcome to these polls (I think this is your first time entering, if not, welcome anyway, of course)  RÊVE “Moths”  Violin opens with a semi-plaintive sound to the vocalist.  Really enjoy the sonic swirling here, between the music and her voice.  Plenty of passion and tension-building.  Dies down near the end, and cuts to solo violin, bookending the start, then another sonic build and goes out, with a wind-down. Great track, right up my alley! 

Tigerfeet:  I believe first time I’ve seen you post in here, too.  Welcome!  Link Wray “fire and brimstone” Remember his name, but don’t believe I’ve ever heard anything by him.  Wrangly guitars and drums in an alt-country kinda vein (although this is really before that term).  Rough-edged vocalist.   I had to look him up, interesting career he had, even played with one of my fave guitarists of all time, John Cippolina.  Tindersticks “This Fire of Autumn”  Second thing I will have heard from them, thanks to these polls.  Laid back kinda vocals with more wrangly guitar, hard to describe the piece, but there is a sense of melancholy.  Vibes join in with the organ underpinning everything.  Haunting song.  Suns of Arga “Baylondon’s Burning”  High, high vocal and soft sounds, that move pretty quickly into drumbeats and an almost-accordionlike sound, then some blips and waaaaa  whaaaa whaaaa wewewewe sounds.  Trancy-hypnotic piece.  Violin-type keys or real violin dance with the vocalist.  Another haunting one, more kinda sorta electronic than I generally go for, but an interesting way to blend styles. 

Scott:  Glenn Tipton “Baptizm of Fire”  Right outta the box, a rocker.  Gets right to the point with heavy keys, guitars and drums.  Lots of adrenalin and fire here.  Pretty complex for such a rocky piece, not surprising, though, with the Judas Priest connection.  Kinda spooky vocal enters quite a bit in. The pyrotechnics continue on to the abrupt conclusion. Big Head Todd and the Monsters “City on Fire”  This is a band of locals I just loved, I lived in Colorado when they were starting to get attention.  Pretty affected guitar starts the piece, with some harmonica.  Nice alt-rock/country feel to this song.  I would vote for these guys if I didn’t know them already.  The Winery Dogs “Fire”  Pretty acoustic guitar and keyboards are a bit to the fore in this mix, with drums and bass back to the rear.  Well-produced singer-songwriter with band kinda piece, very solid acoustic lead in it.  I like this one a lot, better than where these guys all come from, actually.  Lots of understated emotion in the vocal.