Eskimeaux: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
August 28, 2015 by BOB BOILEN Eskimeaux s OK is easily my most played album of the year, next to the Courtney Barnett record. There s lighthearted, almost childlike beauty in the way Gabrielle Smith puts words to song. Here are OK s first lines: In my dreams you re a bathtub running You are warm and tender And bubbling Oh, you are cold and bristling and struggling As an adopted child, Smith discovered that her biological father is Tlingit Eskimo; she describes the eaux suffix as just a playful jumble
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