Introducing Jess: Cellist extraordinaire and Prog Rock enthusiast
Well...never having done this before, I thought I'd just tell you all about my favourite song – at least the song that I like best RIGHT now. But then again, realising what my favourite song is is actually rather hard. Being a music snob, most songs don't hold up to the play, play again, play again, NOW IT'S BORING problem. Here is one that I haven't yet tired of. So its probably in my awesome song list (top ten at least!)

The Canyon Behind Her – dredg.

dredg are a band that are rather pretentious, fitting snugly into the art rock vein. They take the whole 'art' thing to a super extent; for example, if you were to check out their website, you would find that you can buy their paintings, read their non-metrical poetry (at least you could before they released their latest album), and look at cartoons of the weird tired-looking, big-breasted alien thing that graces the cover of Catch Without Arms. This song comes from El Cielo, which was influenced by a Dali painting (how crazy cool/toolish is that!?!?) called “Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bumblebee around a Pomegranate One Second Before Awakening”, which just goes to show how 'high art' they think they are. Most bands wouldn't base an album on a painting, or suggest that you should sit and stare at it while listening to the album because they think that one stimulus heightens the sense of the other (and where did I get that bit of info? Its a translation of what a girl says in japanese at the start of the track). So yes, this song is pretentious. The whole album can be analysed for its little 'I'm so arty and clever' things (have a look at this page because someone ACTUALLY sat down and did it ... for every album...). But it's also musically brilliant. It builds and builds, going from atmospheric niceness, to experimentalish rock song (a bit like the Doves' "Cedar Room"), hits a wall-of-sound high, and ends with some nice a cappella 'aah' chords. I'm not sure if its synth at the end or if the band/singer is actually singing, but to be honest, I don't really care all that much. This song just oozes magic, it makes you sit and listen and at the end it's just bliss. Maybe you won't like it as much as me. Maybe you will. I don't give a shit. This is an amazing song. If you can find it, because I can't work out how to share it with you, then enjoy :-)