New Good Song -- Circles Around The Sun by Dispatch

Here's a new good song -- "Circles Around The Sun" by Dispatch

Sometimes songs with strange storylines flop, and sometimes they soar. One critical achivement of a successful "story" song is that the tone of the story needs to match the tone of the music. That's why "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm" by Crash Test Dummies is such a success. The music and stories are both a little melancholy and quirky. The music is downright gorgeous, in fact, and I think it's musically one of the most underrated songs of the '90s. For some reason in the 2010s, it's dismissed as some novelty song, when it's certainly not. I digress.

Here, in "Circles Around The Sun," we get the story of a nearly weightless boy who "cannot speak or walk" who appears to have been launched into space for the purposes of scientific research. It's told with humor and a spirit of adventure, and the music is poppy, high energy and full of unexpected chord changes, which mirror both the unexpected twists in the lyrical story, as well as the unexpected twists the protagonist would likely face on his space journey. The whole thing works pretty well together.

Enjoy!