Daniel Merriweather: “Cigarettes”

I’ve been committed to this song for a long time, since I first heard it in early 2008. It’s been a long road for Merriweather, whose debut, Love & War, was released in June 2009 in England, but is only just getting release in the States today. Not many people will care and it’s hardly a revelation. But this song feels like early ’70s Rod Stewart and there aren’t many things in the world better than early ’70s Rod Stewart.