Music Invasion: Imogen Heap's "Hide and Seek"

I don't want to choose side or create conflict here but I don't know how the British music scene is so much more vibrant that the US. Lately, it seems that every song that get stick to my head is from the UK and I swear I didn't do it intentionally. Well, there's Duffy, and Adele, Simon Cowell's Leona Lewis' Bleeding Love (I think that's the proper term), Basement Jaxx (Right now I'm onto Lucky Star) and now it's Imogen Heap.

Imogen Heap, strange name, strange character. I know it has taken some while for this music to get into my ear, especially when it has been featured in the O.C. and So You Think You Can Dance but sometimes that's how it works. Imogen reminds me of the singers of the 80s like Basia and Suzanne Vega, she also has the artistic eccentricity of Bjork.

Hide and Seek sounds like a track from the Cocteau Twins, only the arrangements are really incredibly done. The whole thing is sort of a capella and quite haunting. It's an excellent track, but then I was worried that this is the sound of her whole album, which could be a bit tiresome. Thank god it isn't.

Horizontally framed? Elf-like and all about her? Strangely mesmerizing.


Hide and Seek

where are we?
what the hell is going on?
the dust has only just begun to form
crop circles in the carpet
sinking feeling

spin me round again
and rub my eyes,
this can't be happening
when busy streets amass with people
would stop to hold their heads - heavy

hide and seek
trains and sewing machines
all those years
they were here first

oily marks appear on walls
where pleasure moments hung before the takeover,
the sweeping insensitivity of this still life

hide and seek
trains and sewing machines (oh, you won't catch me around here)
blood and tears (hearts)
they were here first

Mmmm whacha say,
Mmmm that you only meant well?
well of course you did
Mmmm whacha say,
Mmmm that its all for the best?
Of course it is
Mmmm whacha say?
Mmmm that it's just what we need
you decided this
whacha say?
Mmmm what did she say?

ransom notes keep falling out your mouth
mid-sweet talk, newspaper word cut outs
speak no feeling no i don't believe you
you don't care a bit,
you don't care a bit

(hide and seek)
ransom notes keep falling out your mouth
mid-sweet talk, newspaper word cut outs

(hide and seek)
speak no feeling no i don't believe you
you don't care a bit,
you don't care a (you don't care a) bit

(hide and seek)
oh no, you don't care a bit
oh no, you don't care a bit

(hide and seek)
oh no, you don't care a bit
you don't care a bit
you don't care a bit