oh norah.

sometimes you realize that 

norah jones 

has invaded your ear waves and you never even noticed.

i've always loved her, probably cause she's canadian--welcome to my weakness as a shameless nationalist. 

thought i'd give you a relaxing interlude between face-melting-electro posts to bring you a particularly well constructed concept album.

the cover art and her zazzy new website are wonderfully Tarentino-inspired, complimenting the sort of "dangerously bored" heartbreak that runs through the album. 

in a word, i'd call it lazy rock n' roll.

as opposed to a rainy-day-sobbing-breakup-album, it's a sort of eyebrow-raised-at-your-idiocy-but-still-dwelling-on-it-exasperated-album, perfectly suited for rainy-day-alone-in-the-house-cooking-in-heels or just general hyphenated shenanigans.  

not to mention it's produced by 

DANGER MOUSE

who is particularly famous for the proverbial "biting of the thumb at the music industry" which came with The Grey Album. Unfamiliar with the formula? In essence:

instrumental of The White Album (Beatles) + vocals of The Black Album (Jay-Z) =

The Grey Album (Danger Mouse)

Read up here, it's really neat. Listen up here, it's a mashup cult favourite. Pay attention to 99 Problems (hear that Helter Skelter bassline? dang). Another particularly spectacular example of a concept album (see what I did there... eh... eh?!) 

BACK TO NORAH...

this is the first single, but you should really stream the whole album here. 

not much of a weekend post but happy weekend ducks.

Roll out.