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Ginny Blackmore — “Bones”
Ginny Blackmore‘s “Bones” has been kicking around my iTunes for a few months but it’s grown on me to the point of near-obsession: The New Zealand native’s powerful vocals, coupled with her gift as a songwriter — “It sucks being a woman in love with an unkind man” is one of my favorite pop lyrics of the year — make “Bones” a luminously sad and lovely plea for intimacy that walks a tightrope between a contemporary R&B sound and a singer-songwriter vibe. Unusual, a little bit eerie, and grippingly modern. The video’s rad, too.
