The Ravonettes “Heart of Stone”

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“Heart of Stone” takes the Danes’ customary ethereal, ghostly vocal harmonies and layers them over an echoey, twangy guitar line reminiscent of a western movie. It’s a sad song, but a fascinating one; intertwined vocals and a rhythm it’s easy to lose yourself in wrap you up from the first listen. “Heart of Stone” is like an endless highway, a black-and-white detective film – vaguely sinister but mostly transfixing.

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The song’s music video is as dark, mysterious, and ornate as the song itself, with imagery akin to that dreamed up by Tim Burton – an animated Rube Goldberg machine of heartbreak. Watch it below, and catch “Heart of Stone” in our latest (and best, if I do say so myself) PMACAST.

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pmablog February 25, 2010 at 9:41 pm

The Ravonettes “Heart of Stone” http://prettymuchamazing.com/mp3/the-rav

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Scott Curtis February 25, 2010 at 11:20 pm

@pmablog big fan of the raveonettes older stuff especially

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