Owl City

My single of the week this week comes from a band called Owl City who I briefly mentioned in my sound of 2010 post here. They didn't quite make it into the top five places but given the huge amount of success they have already achieved in the USA, it is fairly likely that once they start releasing their singles over here they will have a good deal of support. Fireflies is the first single to be released over here and I really think it has a somewhat universal appeal. It is a modern song with an electric feel to it and yet at the same time the soft vocals and tinkly backing track make it soothing and peaceful. Had I have known that this had come out last week, it would have been on here sooner but I cannot find a decent list of the new releases every week. I used to use the Napster list but that seems to miss out a lot of the music that isn't so popular and last week the NME didn't publish their usual list of new releases so I had to go digging around to find something. No such effort was needed this week because this song has been on my list for over a month now, ever since I first heard it courtesy if a tweet by Radio 1 DJ Greg James late last year. It has since been all over the radio and other media and reached no #2 in the charts this week.

The official video for this song has sadly been removed from YouTube for the second time and so I have had to scour around for a substitute. Thankfully there is one on the official Owl City website of the original video featuring non other than Brum!