My Favourite Things 'I Don't Know' - A Song Reviewed by SongBlog

Brooklyn-based quartet My Favourite Things released their third album Fly I Will, Because I Can back in July 2017 and the latest single 'I Don't Know' is a beautiful and washed atmopsheric chiller.

My Favourite Things was founded in Brooklyn by Dorothea Tachler (formerly of Igloo, The Swirlies, Alles Wie Gross). Fans of Beach House, Broadcast, dreampop and shoegaze should enjoy the album’s melancholic swaying, melody-rich offerings. This album should also appeal to lovers of acoustic folk music artists such as James Yorkston and Bonnie “Prince” Billy.

"This song is about the unknown, uncertainty, and on the flip side: potential. It's about the space you are in when you don't know about a certain thing or someone how it'll work out and there's the worst case thinking and best case thinking or hoping all happening at the same time. Cause really, we never know- it could go a number of ways,” explains Dorothea Tachler. Dorothea wrote and produced all the songs with their many textures, owing to the use of multiple instruments, many of which she also played: violins, flutes and autoharps weave in and out of twinkling glockenspiels, vibraphones and intricate, sometimes shredding guitars, delivered on a solid bed of a grabbing bass and ripping drums, with Dorothea’s balmy voice hovering and twinkling atop. “I found the phrase "a little closer" synonymous with the feeling of anticipation. This is also self reflective of the band's anticipation, concurrent in real world / real time application, as they release their new singles, the new album, as they shoot music videos, etc. This video juxtaposes both the shooting of their music video to the recounting of their collective history over the years both on and off the stage - moments in the past that have guided and shaped them now in the present, bringing them a little closer to their dreams,” says videographer Gi Yong Rhee. “Music was my anchor and my lighthouse in stormy and dark nights, and putting my inner turmoil into words really helped me process it better. It was kind of my metamorphosis, being disintegrated like a chrysalis, and being shaped into something new,” explains Tachler. When performing live, My Favourite Things appear in different formations, ranging from a solo act to a five-piece band, featuring prominent musicians from the buoyant New York scene: Yoshio “Tony” Kobayashi on drums, Yusuke Yamamoto on vibraphone and synthesizers, Michael Figgiani on bass, and various other talents.

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