Morphine - Claire
Mmm. Morphine. Heard about them from my friend's Dad who got me into other artists like Modest Mouse and Donald Byrd. I was really impressed by Morphine's unique sound when I first heard it though. Just three guys mainly just playing drums, bass and sax. And Mark Sandman's weird croony vocals. He kinda makes me think of an older, deeper-voiced Kurt Cobain. Sandman met an untimely demise as well.
When I first started listening to Morphine I was playing around with iTunes a lot and would sometimes make up genres for bands or songs I felt didn't fit into its predefined categories. I deemed Morphine: Dark Underwater Jazz. That still feel pretty appropriate.
Like many of Morphine's songs, Claire seems to be about a woman. Which I guess is fine, but I like some of their weirder songs like Hanging on a Curtain and the Other Side.
Just watched the last season of House of Cards too and goddamn. Claire. Great stuff.










