Ever since I saw the light, my eyes are wider

Around the Haute everything is turning into a sheet of ice, again. While I was sliding down the road, a song came up on the play list and turned a crappy bad-weather highway into a stark and lovely instance of motion meeting sky. "Circles," by TH's beloved Cuba, is a two-chord masterpiece.

Cuba's 2006 release Sounds Like a Story (buy) is quite a bit different from their live shows — it's a folk album from a band that prefers to rock a bit harder live, and after this cd the band line-up changed a bit as well — but it's a CD I keep coming back to. Quite simply, Jon DaCosta knows how to write songs. I discovered their music via this album before I got to know various members of the band, so I feel content in knowing that I would be a fan even if I didn't know how great the guys are. (Its follow-up Epilogue (buy), in 2007, is also awesome in different ways, but I'm sure I'll get to it later. And the fellas are recording again; I can't wait!)

MP3: Cuba - Circles (Buy)


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