Dear Corinne – Ferraby Lionheart
Ferraby Lionheart has never quite done it for me. I just have a hard time getting into that easy-going style that he’s got going on. And his voice just feels a little too Jens Lekman for me. I liked Catch the Brass Ring fine enough but I had a hard time believing that he’d ever make a song that blew me away.
I was wrong. “Dear Corinne” is a revelation. It takes everything I thought I knew and reassembles it into a masterpiece of desperate love and acoustic magic. This is a box cracked and faded love letters, lost to time. Names, dates, places…all washed away and covered in smudges. But through it all something shines through.
Things start out modestly enough, and for the first minute you could be forgiven for thinking that this was simply more of the same – pretty enough but nothing more. And then the percussion hiccups for the second verse and you start to sense that something is building. When the horn solo happens at 2:07 you begin to wonder if you’re being permitted to listen in on something intensely private and pure.
And then you’re primed. You know something beautiful is about to happen but the anticipation is washed over by a sense of gentleness and care. And when his voice does that thing that it does on “picks me up and delivers me home” you know it simply couldn’t be any other way.
Supposedly, this is the first track off a new album due out this summer. I wasn’t excited about it before this song, but now I can’t wait.