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title: "“You're the Cables that Connect Me” (the 2009-02-13 Friday Fetch-it)" date: 2009-02-13 22:22 series: the Friday Fetch-it

tags: Chasing Dorotea, Club 8, Labrador records, Labrador Summer Sampler 2007, Spring Came Rain Fell, The Anchor Song

<p>A couple of years ago, Swedish record label <a href="http://www.labrador.se/">Labrador</a> released <a href="http://www.labrador.se/news.php3?lab=070719.080323">a summer sampler of gargantuan proportions</a>. A lot of those 68 songs are unremarkable (though none is truly awful).</p>
<p>But I keep coming back to <strong>Chasing Dorotea</strong>'s unabashedly romantic <strong>The Anchor Song</strong>.</p>
<p>Part of the song's charm is its simplicity: two voices singing mostly in unison, backed by an acoustic guitar, with a harmonica decorating the space around the verses.</p>
<p>The singers exude tranquillity and relaxation, right from “You've got a sparkle in your eyes, stronger than the brightest sun”. Even the instruments seem carefree as they ebb and flow amongst the vocals.</p>
<p>But the real joy is in the lyrics' endless river of metaphors and fond exaggerations.</p>
<p>This song is guaranteed to leave you with a lower blood pressure, a subdued heartbeat and a wistful smile. <strong>If you download one song this week, make it <a href="http://gkn.me.uk/thefridayfetchit/20090213.mp3">The Anchor Song</a>.</strong></p>
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<p>(How do you follow <em>that</em>? Something slightly more lively but equally lovely: “Spring Came, Rain Fell” by Club 8, from the same sampler.)</p>