This morning I wrote an Exclaim! news piece about Tracey Thorn’s upcoming album, Love and Its Opposite. In writing the story, I became rather taken with the disc’s lead single, “Oh, the Divorces!” A heartbreaking, percussion-less ballad, it pairs stark piano chords with baroque string fluorishes as Thorn complains about the ubiquity of modern divorce.
As a child of divorce myself, this song hits pretty close to home. I feel like I’m eleven again! Daddy, don’t leave!
MP3: “Oh, the Divorces!”
As a child of divorce myself, this song hits pretty close to home. I feel like I’m eleven again! Daddy, don’t leave!
MP3: “Oh, the Divorces!”
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Thanks Alex! This is the third time in a row I’ve listened to this song. Very simple but really pretty.
Noticed the reference to Jens Lekman in the lyrics?
http://www.jenslekman.com/records/smalltalk.htm
I just listened to this song yesterday, and I never noticed that. Nice catch!