Stefana Fratila | Tristă cu Frică [ALBUM REVIEW]

Okay, so here's the thing with Joanna Newsom; sometimes I don't want to have to get into a crocheted hot air balloon to reach the top of Whimsy Mountain in the town of Gelfling. As an alternative, how about taking a stroll through the lush green hills of Endor with your little furry, though terrifying, Ewok buddies to their treetop metropolis? I know what you're thinking, "but I'm gonna have to hear that terrible 'Jub-Jub' song the whole time!" No worries friend. The whole scene is soundtracked by Stefana Fratila's "Discourse." Feel better now? Damn straight you do. Tristă cu Frică is an album that invokes lush waves of strings, beats, and a voice that's playful yet all together confident and strong. With an album title meaning “saddened with fear” in Romanian (Fratila is Romanian born so she didn't just pull that out of thin, pretentious air) you'd be hard-pressed to not get some toe tapping joy out of this collection. Kids, before going back to school, do yourself a favour and take a listen or two (or six) to "Blim."

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