Lauryn Hill, Father Forgive Them, I Used to Love Him.
Poe, Haunted, Control.
Poe is a very interesting cat. She’s apparently just come out of a long legal battle with her record label and is doing the independent thing. I think she is a precedent-setter, and I think we will see more small-but-big-enough-to-have-a-go-of-it acts following suit. The kind of acts you will see succeed are the ones with their own authentic ethos, the kind of something that retains fans, connects with them on a deeper level, keeps them coming out to shows and buying discs even when the market is weak and over-saturated.
To describe what she went through, and also as a condemnation on the industry as a whole, Poe wrote a story. It is really good, I recommend reading it through.
Poe is the one who is Danielewski’s sister (of course we all heard of Poe first with her 1995 hit, whatever it was!), and her last record, Haunted, is a concept album around House of Leaves (as well as dealing with her father’s death…a soundbyte from him at the end of Control is amazing).
In fact, they went on tour together, a combo book/music tour. Found some pictures from that today.
