Close To Paradise

"I will now sell 5 copies of Three EPs by the Beta Band."

You remember that scene in High Fidelity. The Beta Band's "Dry The Rain" begins to play over the speakers and customers begin to move with the beat. One customer looks up and asks, "Who is this?"

It's a tried and true record store method and it works on me even though I know the trick. Every once in awhile I'm walking through my favorite record store (Waterloo Records at 6th and Lamar) and something will be playing that catches my ear.

Last night it was Patrick Watson. Better than Coldplay and just short of Jeff Buckley, stylistically somewhere in between. Close To Paradise is the album and it just came out. If you have the chance to give it a listen, I highly recommend it.