Quick hitters:: Matt Bauer

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It's not too often that we post on a single song - one where we've given the entire album a brief pass over, but Matt Bauer is something special. I was leaving the No Kids show - which was a rare treat to say the least, as they rarely play out and it was free - and threw on my Zune expecting to hear Chad Van Gaalen.

Instead, it was the new Matt Bauer record that I had absent mindedly thrown in my reviewing queue and well, obviously he grabbed my attention. The Island Moved in the Storm is perfect. Emotional, spare, powerful and simply beautiful. I walked around Vancouver reestablishing myself with my old home with little chimes dancing in the background as Bauer's voice repeated, "It's so pretty. I can't stand it, it's so pretty. I can't take it" really powered the occasion and says more about his music than I can.