jack penate – tonights today

lets take things on a much lighter note today than yesterday. todays song is by british singer songwriter jack penate. theres a tilde over the n in his name, so its pronounced “pen-ya’-tee” i believe, but i dont know how to do that character and its really a lot of work to figure it out, so use your imagination on that one. his website features some kind of neat things when you move the mouse around, and right now theres a list of songs hes been listening too a bunch, the first of which is plasticities by andrew bird. and since thats one of my favorite andrew bird songs, jack penate must be at least a little bit cool.

i think probably his most famous song is “second minute or hour”, which is a really fast paced upbeat tune that almost has a little bit of a ska vibe to it. but that song is in stark track to todays song, “tonights today”, which is much more slow-paced and much darker sounding. the music features a repeating guitar riff that has some sort of pretty cool effect on it that, along with some reverb, gives off a weird dreamy vibe, and the lyrics seem to corroborate the dreamy feel of the song. that would be sweet if i just used the word “corroborate” correctly. and the vocal effects at the very beginning, which come back in halfway through the song, seem to give the whole some a sort of tribal feel too.

jack penate – tonights today

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1. I saw him open for Miike Snow last week and I was like, who is this surprisingly good opening band? Thanks!

   Sam

   3 Oct 09 at 4:23 pm

    

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