"Dreamer" (Astrud Gilberto cover) [MP3/Stream]

New Music: The Postmarks: "Dreamer" (Astrud Gilberto cover) [MP3/Stream]

If I hadn't already picked out a first dance for my wedding this summer (the Magnetic Fields' "The Book of Love", because I'm totally derivative of author Rick Moody), Astrud Gilberto's gorgeous bossa nova love song "Dreamer" would be a perfect choice. For me, the Postmarks' cover version might be even perfecter-- as with their enduringly impressive self-titled debut, it has the delicate eroticism of classic Brazilian pop, the rose-tinted romance of the Flamingos, and the attention to ambient detail of electronic chill-out music. Instrumentalist and usual co-songwriter Christopher Moll says it's the first song they ever worked on with chanteuse Tim Yehezkely, but the only surprise is that their sound came so fully formed.

Visions of an unbearably in-love Disney couple in formal dress, whirling and whirling toward forever, pour forth from the track's chiming percussion and crush-a-lot orchestration, re-arranged by the group. "I tell my sad little dreams to the soft evening air," Yehezkely sings, lonely as a teenager, yet two things she knows how to do: "One is to dream/ Two is loving you." If these lyrics make you puke up a kidney, become an organ donor and click away from this page posthaste. But if you've ever embarrassed yourself for love, raise a toast-- and dream like dreamers do.

The Postmarks also recently recorded the song "Balloons" to air on "Yo Gabba Gabba", a Nick Jr. show for ages one and up. So you lucky couples might as well go ahead and have kids. Kids??? Eek!

 
MP3:> The Postmarks: The Dreamer
[previously unreleased; The Postmarks is out now on Unfiltered]
 
Posted by Marc Hogan on Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 8:50am