Songs That Might Otherwise Pass You By KaiserCartel, "Okay" Courtney Kaiser's voice envelopes you in a richness so deep, so dense that if someone told you you had to break from it to save yourself from mortal danger, you may not be able to--you may not want to. The song is already beautiful, but she raises it to the level of devastatingly gorgeous. If she asks if you're okay, you have no
Yes, he’s gazing out from a hot-air balloon basket on his most recent release, Farewell, My Sweet Alibi (Kool Kat Musik) â€" and yes, even his own mom thinks her son resembles Tiny Tim in that cover photo. But hot damn, there ain’t nothing of a tulip-tiptoeing novelty to the lead-off single from this Cambridge-based songwriter’s late-‘60s vintage-pop record: buoyant strings, ivory-keyed soliloquies, get-happy handclaps, misty mellotron, Elvis Costello’s smartly wounded phrasing - all stitched together to make this song the best orchestral-pop tune you haven’t heard. Dude doesn’t even have downloadable tracks on his Web site [...]