About This Song
About "Broken Bicycles (Waits) – Junk (McCartney)" by Anne Sofie Von Otter
Von Otter inhabits Waits’s broken-spoke waltz with a hushed, cigarette-smoke melancholy, while McCartney’s junk-shop lullaby gleams like cracked porcelain. Two odes to damaged things, rendered with chamber-pop tenderness and a quiet ache for what’s been discarded.