Hello!

I actually should be writing my application letter for the Roosevelt Academy right now, but I couldn’t help but to write a blog about my most recent addiction: Glass Pear. The Welsh Yestyn Griffiths is the wonderful creature that came up with these marvelous melodies, glorious piano riddles, stunning lyrics and so on. I stumbled across his music when I was watching Bones last weekend and I fell in love with it right away.

The song I heard back then was called My Ghost, and you can listen to it here (The video is pretty awesome too, by the way!) Of course it was played at the sweetest and most emotional scene of Bones and every girl who would have seen that scene would have fallen in love with the song straight away. But usually when I listen to songs like that for the second time, they have lost their magic and they’re just an ordinary ballad. But this time, with Glass Pear, it was different. When I searched the video at YouTube and listened to it again, I loved it even more!

I got caught up in school business for a while and I forgot about my latest invention. Yet, tonight, I stumbled across a piece of paper on which I scribbled Glass Pear. I suddenly remembered the wonderful music of Yestyn and looked it up again. This time I also listened to a lot of other songs and it was pretty clear: Yestyn has entered the list of coolness.

His CD, ‘Streets of Love’, is available on iTunes but you can also listen to the entire album at Yestyn’s YouTube channel. Describing his music is hard but I’ll give it a try. The young singer songwriter could be placed in the indie-corner but also the pop one. His uptempo songs are quite catchy but also just a tad different from the normal pop song. Listening to his catchy Vultures makes it impossible to not move your head, the sweet piano makes your hand tick up and down and your feet won’t stop moving from side to side. There’s also the lovely Listen to the music in which Yestyn manages to get some wonderful chords and harmonies out of the piano, guitar and his wonderful voice. This last song reminded me a bit of the dutch Bertolf, another lovely singer-songwriter.

The song that really made Glass Pear known by a wider audience was Last day of your life, which appeared on a Grey’s Anatomy episode earlier this year. But you all know that I love ballads more than anything and therefore the last song to which I will give my love is the beautiful Colours: