.francq__ will stop you in your tracks with her gritty yet graceful voice and meticulous lyrics
, the first is the Piltdown Man, one of the most infamous scientific hoaxes of all time. After amateur archaeologist Charles Dawson"discovered" the remains of a missing link between ape and human in 1912, it took 40 years for his findings to finally wilt as fraud."Why would he do such a thing?" Quinlan sings, then re-examines:"Of course, what a stupid question."
Glowing, literary moments like this — the kind that make you listen closely and hit repeat — garnish her songwriting catalog with, the Philadelphia band with whom she's made three exceptional LPs. They rock, first of all, anchored by Quinlan's deadliest asset: her voice. It's capable of immense power and grit, yet its grace will disarm you."I do tend to agonize a bit, one might say, over vocals," she told MTV News.
One of these arresting scenes haunts"Your Reply," where bouncy piano soundtracks a moment of chaos."The author I read fell from a window, many stories high / Stretching out to feed pigeons or a stray cat, depending on the website," she sings like she's explaining a moving Wikipedia entry. You want to know more. It's the same casual specificity that made me devour the biography of unlucky folk singer Jackson C.
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