#9
Des Ark: “My Saddle Is Waitin’ (C’mon Jump On It)”
[from Don’t Rock The Boat, Sink The Fucker / Lovitt]

I approached my first listen to Don’t Rock The Boat, Sink The Fucker with a small amount of trepidation. I had been warned that I probably wasn’t going to like it by someone who knows my tastes incredibly well. For good reason, those instincts should have been spot on, but something about Aimée Collet Argote’s fearlessness at wearing her heart on her sleeve completely charmed me. Ok, admittedly, everything about her music charmed me.

“My Saddle Is Waitin’ (C’mon Jump On It)” opens with the line, “I wanna die with a halo on my head for all my friends,” and doesn’t back down even once on the notion that it’s difficult to be the perfect person that your friends expect you to be. There’s no resolution, there’s no happy ending, there’s no waking up to a brighter tomorrow. This is wallowing at it’s melodic finest and I wouldn’t have it any other way.