The Phoenix Foundation's Buffalo album was one of my surprise favourites of last year. There was this innate prettiness to all the songs; you know, that sensation you get when listening to something that you're engaging with something so equally delicate and wonderful that you want to pick it up and shelter it in cupped hands.
And new single Flock of Hearts is the very epitome of that. Just look at the title! Flock of Hearts - what beautiful imagery is encapsulated right there; tropical, winged birds floating up on an airy summer breeze, suddenly morphing into a sea of rosy hearts. It's a romantic, fantastical image, but one that sums up the beauty of the record. Twinkly music-box melodies usher in a nursery-rhyme-like overture, the lyrics proclaiming 'I was trapped in a man's body, with a child's mind'.
That's what we feel here as the string section swells sensuously in the background, swept away into a melting pot of memories. Young and old, youth and all the complexities of our present lives - it's all there.
Flock of Hearts is available to download from iTunes now.
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