Valery Gore, “With the Future”

I’m an old fart, so usually songs released in the past ten years make me feel like I’m in an Urban Outfitters in one of two ways: that I’m in Urban Outfitters and stressed out and feeling poor but on a fashion bender and committed to purchasing something cool that I know I’ll never have the guts to wear while manic alt-punk music fills my ears, or that I’m in Urban Outfitters, I hear a cool song that would never have come on the Ella Fitzgerald Pandora station, and I think, “Thank God I came into Urban Outfitters to hear this cool song.”

This is the latter. Valery Gore, an independent musician, has just released her new record “Idols in the Dark Heart.” Her vocals are haunting, the track complex but low-key. Let her song, With The Future, hoist you on its shoulders and carry you through the rest of the day.