Joan as Police Woman,
“Flash”
I like the Deep Field album – the single “The Magic” is superb – but I haven’t been able to get into it fully as I just can’t get past “Flash” This is just so achingly crazy SUBLIME that everything else falls into the distance. Joan ‘Jeff Buckley’s former girlfriend’ Wasser always does this, I feel; she always puts something on every one of her albums that completely eclipses everything else, despite them always being solidly excellent.
A note: I tried in vain to find a video or .wav that did any kind of justice to the track. Sadly the shitty sound on the YouTubes mean you miss the warmth, the intricate interweaving of sounds that drift out of deep space and softly dissipate like a sigh. This is pure through headphones in a dark room in the tired early hours music. If there’s one single track from 2011 that I will listen to for the rest of my life, then this is it.
I highly agree with that. “Flash” is one of the best things I have heard my whole life. I hope you had the chance to hear it live once.