Grace Cummings Recommends…

Laser Guided Melodies

I always come back to this album. The first time I heard it was like it was made for my ears only; a little secret written just for me that encapsulated everything that was swimming around in my head. A lullaby just for me. “Spaceman” is classic Sinatra, a bed time melody and a symphony all at once.

“Shine a Light” is a song that “formed” me a bit, I suppose, as a musician… It starts from nowhere and builds up and up to a ripout-your-heart-out kind of catastrophe. It’s magnificent. That’s what life is like, I think. When I hear it in music it all just starts making a lot of sense to me.