[Song a Day] Abney Park - Sleep Isabella

[justira]

Part of the Song a Day Project!

So Abney Park is something like steampunk industrial? Which I think is super neat. It's one of those bands that has changed a whole lot since its inception: they started out as a goth group, then some years later their membership got shuffled around a lot before they found a new identity as a steampunk group, complete with fictional backstories as the crew of an airship. Pretty cool!

As for this particular song? I basically cannot resist string instruments combined with non-classical music, as well as sweet clean vocals combined with a rougher voice. ...but mostly yeah, it's the strings.

Now! I am embedding just the studio track above the cut. However! I also want to show what the band actually looks like because there are vials on their violin so yeah. So I recommend listening to just the track first, but after the cut I'll have another youtube vid showing one of their performances.

Youtube Link: Abney Park - Sleep Isabella

Abney Park - Sleep Isabella

Sleep, child, sleep
Sleep, child, sleep
Daylight is waning
Consciously fraying
Sleep, my child

Sleep, sleep, my Isabella
Safely in your carousel-a
Sleep through the spinning
Just like your beginning
Sleep, my child

Dance, child, dance (Dance)
Dance, child, dance (Dance)
Nighttime is waiting
Dreamtimes are fraying
So dance, my child (my child)

Dance, dance, my Isabella
Staying in your own carousel-a
Sleep through the dreaming
Your whole world deceiving
Dance, my child

My Isabella
Your carousel-a...

Sleep, child, sleep
Sleep, child, sleep
Daylight is waning
Consciously fraying
Sleep, my child

Sleep, sleep, my Isabella
Safely in your carousel-a
Sleep through the spinning
Just like your beginning
Sleep, my child

And here is what they look like! You... can pretty much tell it used to be a goth band. But the clothes and instruments look great. Sidenote: it always weirds me out to see people where before I'd only known them by voice. Like, the lead vocalist here, this is not what he looked like in my head. But I have this problem with basically every person whom I've heard sing before I'd seen them =|

Anyway, this is not a live vid — this is a music video using live show footage.

Youtube Link: Abney Park - Sleep Isabella (liver performance vid)