you can touch me if you want to, i don't really care

"oh you can kiss me again if you want, i don't mind."

i think i'm in love with 1) jessica lea mayfield and 2) cyberspace (yeah. that's right. i'm bring that back: cyberspace) - i love the power of the interweb and social networking tools.

case in point:

yesterday i was on twitter and stereogum posted new video from jessica lea mayfield.

see said video below:


so. the handgun at the end is sorta lame, but i had instant music love for the track. so, from twitter i went to emusic, found the LP and downloaded it. the internet just makes life so easy. i love how i can see a twitter, watch a video and legally obtain an album all within 10 minutes. for reasons such as this, i know that in some capacity, i will always be able to find work as a publicist (knock on wood).

either way. i'm in love with jessica lea mayfield. i love her seemingly ambivalent vocal style. the way she swoops from note to note, effortlessly, but with a clear direction of where she's headed. i love her sharp, sad, honest lyrics. at 19, she's got a lot to give yet, that's for sure.

i especially love the production on the album. it's whimsical, with a healthy dose of rock and country-twang thrown in for good measure. it sounds real. it's sounds alive. it's reminiscent of of the style of production on a fleet foxes or bon iver album.

stand out tracks:

the clear front runner is "kiss me again." (see above video). i've listened to this track about 20 times in the past 24 hours.

"the one i loved the best" - it's a beautiful track. i was recently broken-up with and i have to say, if i was capable of writing a good break-up song, it would have been this one. what i'm getting at is that mayfield has this way of capturing raw emotion, through her words and tone and musicality. that's a songwriter, if you ask me.

"we've never lied" - twangy guitar picking and traditional, folksy, acoustic guitar set the mood for the track. again. the vocals are the stand-out here. they're the stand-out on any track. their painstakingly emotional. they suck you in and hold your attention for the length of the song. they're haunting, really.

"for today" is also an amazing track - "but i could care less about you, care less about you, and i love the sound of you walking away, and i can see clearer, and i'm getting closer to finding out just who i am without you in the way, so hold me, but only for today." who writes like that at 19?

jessica lea mayfield was the best birthday present. of life.