I'm staring out the world

'Forgetting you is like
Breathing water
There's got to be a better way' -- Stina Nordenstam

I wanted to introduce you to the breathtakingly breathless wonder of Stina, but, well, it's a little difficult to be honest. It's not that she's slightly inaccessible, though she is, and it's not that she's a bit of an acquired taste, though she is. It's just that well, her music is indescribable. How can I convince you of the beauty of something that at times sounds like a trumpet-backed cat wailing. Like cheese and jam on toast, it really shouldn't work, but it just does. It's like listening to leaves rustling, with a brass section. No wait, it's what sorbet would sound like if you plugged it in. Umm... it's, it's, well her voice is so soft and wispy, like being stroked with a feather accompanied by bluesy bladerunner style Vangelis. I was going to post some of her lyrics, but they're either pretty bleak ('So this is goodbye / So this is how you say it / This is the time it takes you / It didn't take you a lot now did it?'), or pretty strange ('I finally fell in the black hole / between your sentences') So instead, I'll just say step out of the boat and buy her new album. Or her previous one. Actually they're all amazing, so order the back catalogue; I'm on commission.