I'm a grammar nerd, so you know I must like these guys if I'm willing to overlook the flagrant disregard for proper prefixes in the song title. "Unconsolable" is akin to "irregardless" in my mind -- right, Gretchen? -- but this song is addictive. Vocalist and songwriter Sam Harris is percussive with both his vocals and his hands, banging a drum with a mallet while snuggling with his bandmates in the comfort of the Big Ugly Yellow Couch.
The band's debut album, Litost, was released digitally in January. Let's hope Lolla brings the band the exposure to cut some true records over the next few years. If they can do all that with a toy piano and auxiliary percussion instruments, I'm psyched to see what they can do with a full band setup.
The Ambassadors play the BMI stage at noon on Friday, August 3.
out of the meagre 8 entries for unconsolable in the BYU COCA 3 are from Academic Register, 3 from Fiction, 1 from News, 1 from Spoken.
ReplyDeletearticle on use of un - http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/magazine/20FOB-onlanguage-t.html
oh, and the song is not bad :)
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Thanks for the research Mura! Good read.
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