Australia's Sally Seltmann seems to be Arts & Craft's best kept secret. Having released two EPs, and three albums (all but her most recent under the moniker New Buffalo), she has garnered much praise among the indie world but continues to keep a low profile in the music press. Her songs are dreamy and lilting with a tendency towards bouncy tin pan alley inspired melodies (evident on Feist's hit single, "1234", which Seltmann cowrote).
The song "Emotional Champ", from her second New Buffalo album Somewhere, Anywhere (2007), is a shimmering march that manages to pack all the uplifting power of a Sigur Rós song in just a fraction of the time. Her backing vocals drum along like a children's choir while her lead whisks the listener away to somewhere bright and lovely. The instrumentation is sparse yet plentiful in power. Those who felt jipped out of the drempop they were expecting from Feist's The Reminder, might want to dig deeper into Seltmann's catalogue for more gems like this one.
Sunday, August 15, 2010
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