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Maybe What I Need Is "Just More Drugs"
Wednesday, 2 May 2007 12:00 A GMT-04
How about some more mellow music to follow yesterday's offering? These songs are from Barzin, a songwriter from Toronto who's just put out an EP called Just More Drugs. He's not quite a solo artist but rather works with a group of musicians that come and go on his recordings, so I don't know how to classify him.

I do know that I like the gentle acoustic guitar work and the way his voice is so vulnerable and open. There's something kind of dreamy about it. There's also a line in "Just More Drugs" that perfectly describes how I felt yesterday: Wake up / Just a little breakdown / Start out the day just a little wrong / Who should I call when I don't know why I'm calling?

He had a song out last year that was one of my favorite sad songs called "Let's Go Driving," and this music is in a similar melancholic vein, although not quite as slow.

Barzin --"Just More Drugs (Resonance FM Glass Shrimp Session)" mp3 off Just More Drugs EP (buy) For some reason, this song won't play when you click on the blue arrow. It will play if you left click on the title, and it will download, but the arrow's not working.

Barzin --"Queen Jane" mp3 off Just More Drugs EP This one works just fine.

Oh, I'm just kidding about the drugs. The recreational ones, anyway. The therapeutic ones are another matter entirely.