Becky Stark, Queen of the World

The first time I fell for Becky Stark was in the movie High School Record, in which she plays a chirpy-voiced peacenik drama teacher who wears lots of sparkly dresses kinda reminiscent of your third-grade tap recital costume. A few hours after the screening I saw her band Lavender Diamond for the first time - they opened with a save-your-life song called "You Broke My Heart" (mp3), Becky wore some antique fairy-princess gown, and it was impossible not to love her forever. Her voice was golden and gorgeous and anything but chirpy; the music was exultant, revelatory stuff that can most easily be classified as folk but also has some kind of magic-pop thing going on.

That all happened more than two years ago, and ever since I have been waiting with breath that is bated for Lavender Diamond's first full-length record, Imagine Our Love. And today it's here, and it's like Christmas all over again. A testament to how damn charming and obsession-worthy this band is: I've seen them so many times since early 2005 that I know half the album's lyrics by heart, even though I've only ever heard them live until now. Finally getting to play those songs whenever I want is the best present, as is this giddy little video for Imagine Our Love's first single, "Open Your Heart":

And here's the "Queen of the World" scene from High School Record, promised to warm the cockles of your heart:

Posted by Liz in Soundtracks
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