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title: “I'll Wake Up in Fifty Years and Feel the Same” (the 2006-04-29 Saturday Fetch-it) date: 2006-04-29 19:04 series: the Friday Fetch-it

tags: Aristazabal Hawkes, By The Water, Feist, Good Weather For Airstrikes, Guillemots, Of The Night, Régine Chassagne, the Arcade Fire

<p>You should know who <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Guillemots">Guillemots</a> are by now, so I'm gonna try to steer clear of the obvious. For the unenlightened, <a href="http://www.goodweatherforairstrikes.com/test/2006/03/12/artist-mega-profile-guillemots/">Good Weather For Airstrikes's Mega-Profile</a> includes this week's track, lots of others, and some carefully arranged letters, numbers and punctuation, a fine example of which is “you can't go wrong with a Guillemots song”.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Aristazabal+Hawkes">Aristazabal Hawkes</a>-sung (and written) <a title="Guillemots – By The Water" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Guillemots/_/By+The+Water">By The Water</a> – from their Of The Night EP, released via the web this Valentine's Day – is simply lovely.</p>
<p>Her voice sounds a lot like Régine Chassagne of <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/The+Arcade+Fire">The Arcade Fire</a>, and <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Feist">Feist</a>; incidentally, all three are Canadian.</p>
<p>By The Water is the kind of song that mesmerises right from the start. The fade-in intro builds to an attention-grabbing and assertive opening line; the confident vocals accentuated with some slightly-jazzy piano draw you in. It remains intoxicating throughout its gradual progression towards the slow, quiet coda.</p>
<p>It's the sort of song you snap out of afterwards. <strong>If you download one track this week, make it <a href="http://gkn.me.uk/thefridayfetchit/20060429.mp3">By The Water</a>.</strong></p>