"At age 19 Jake had already released two successful albums. Strange Creatures is some beautiful stripped back bonus material from the recording sessions for his second record Shangri La. Produced by Rick Rubin, the man with the magic touch, at his home in Malibu."
"Jake Bugg is an English musician, singer, and songwriter. His self-titled debut album, largely co-written with songwriter Iain Archer, was released in late 2012 and reached number one on the UK Albums Chart."
Lyrics:
"Oh it’s a cold world But it’s haunting me
Oh a little ghost of a girl
She came to me She’s been haunting me
Strange creatures
Oh yeah you and I both Strange creatures
Deep down you and I both
This man knows it all
Don’t have a clue about me I’m in a nightmare
Not a thing can set me free If only…"
The lyrics for Jake Bugg's song, Strange creatures, contain a lot of imagery considering there aren't that many different words, and many of the versus are repeated.
The artist involves lots of literal as well as subjective sentences which evoke mental images in the audience's head's.
In my opinion he uses the term strange creatures when he is infact referring to the brain/consciousness of people, and how feelings or emotions can not be understood plainly.
Tone, instrumental and backing track:
The tone to Jake Bugg's song follows his other realises as that is his genre of an indie folk style.
Like his other songs, the tone fits with the lyrics, and the way he sings the versus slow, but with loud emotion give the listener time to think about each word he is saying and the connotations attached to the lyrics he has chosen to represent this particular story.
Evaluation
I feel that this song in general is very emotive and starts on a level of emotiveness which doesn't decline of specifically escalate, for this reason the song is rather simple in a sense, as is all in one individual tone.
The lyrics have connotations which could be construed as obvious or blatant on one hand, or also as subjective and having hidden depth in another.
