Community Service Announcement
Kylie Auldist
Just Say, 2008
The Australian soul singer that I was intrigued by on this song that I posted in November released her debut album May 26 on Tru Thoughts (the same label that released the Bamboos album that she guested on). Her album was produced Lance (aka Lanu) from the Bamboos and it has a fairly similar feel to the Bamboos vocal songs. This is the first single and what I would consider (so far) to be the best song on the album.
It also seems to be part of a larger move in the new soul “movement” to dial the sound back from 1973 to 1967. I think it’s cool that people are being creative and switching it up but that “everyone” seems to be doing at the same time (Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings “Tell Me” and the 100 Days, 100 Nights album is the best example I can think of) makes me think of this music as trendy and makes it a lot harder to idealize it as timeless (which I enjoy doing).
Thematically, this song bears a strong resemblance to Bill Wither’s “Lonely Town, Lonely Street.”
“Community Service Announcement” opening line:
Living in the jungle
Is same as living in the town
If your not living near your brothers
We all need someone around
“Lonely Town, Lonely Street” opening line:
You can live your life in a crowded city
You can walk along a crowded street
But the city really ain’t no bigger
Than the friendly people that you meet
I was really surprised to find a cover of the Jeff Buckley song I posted in March ‘07. I like to pretend that she was google-ing herself and found my site and decided to cover the song for me.
>> right-click –> here to download “Community Service Announcement” [10.3 MB].
