New Buffalo - Last Beautiful Day

New Buffalo are somewhat of an oddity to me. They play a style of music that I can only think to call lounge-jazz but despite the obvious tedium that I'd attach to such a label, Last Beautiful Day has been completely blowing me away of late. They're easily comparable to Feist as the vocals carry that certain sexy lady of leisure quality and the general diverse use of brass helps the comparison along as well, however at other points the vocals cause New Buffalo to sound like Broadcast if the synth was replaced with an acoustic guitar, in other words, the singing sounds like that of Broadcast. Comparisons aside, Last Beautiful Day is some powerful stuff. The overly honest and powerful lyrics supply the record with many decent tear jerker moments and the jazz and acoustic compositions only add to the general emotional feel. "Come Back" is the stand out track with one of the most heart melting choruses I've heard in some time. A record to listen to whilst crying in to your ice cream, basically.

New Buffalo - I've Got You and You've Got Me (Song Of Contentment)
New Buffalo - Come Back

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Edit: Turns out New Buffalo is just Sally Seltmann who created all the arrangements on this record. That's pretty fucking amazing and now I feel like a dick for not doing my research better.