Kill Her If You Can

My sporadic posting schedule is really showing this week, isn’t it? I have this huge stack of wonderful things to write about but I can never seem to find enough hours in the day to do so. Well, I’m forcing myself today! Even if my thoughts are half-baked and my writing so poor it makes my 8th grade English teacher cry himself to sleep.

I have Song By Toad to thank for this latest discovery, George Pringle. The name is a bit misleading as the performer is a she, but after hearing the music it still seems as appropriate a name as any. The whole thing is a sort of teenage version of Black Box Recorder crossed with Camera Obscura, though maybe she’s been listening to the latest M83 album on repeat, too. Lots of spoken word over simple, minimal electronic instrumentation.

There’s a very genuine emotional outpouring to it all, even if it could seem too naive to enjoy to a cynical ear. Much like my appreciation for the aforementioned M83 album, I think George Pringle works in a certain context, and so must be viewed and appreciated in that context. She’s obviously very young but very smart, and when something is this emotionally unfiltered there’s always the potential for it to seem cloying or indulgent, but it never manages to come across as anything less than sincere.

We often look back at the crises we faced at 17 or 18 and laugh, but when you actually are that age the smallest thing might seem an insurmountable task. The music of George Pringle manages to evoke those years and the volatile emotions associated with them in vivid detail, but thankfully without making you actually relive them.

George Pringle – Kill Her If You Can, Loverboy
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