Ball of Wax 45 Songs: Ken Cormier/Natalie Quist

With “No Hall Pass,” Connecticut’s Ken Cormier (one of many BoW 45 artists also heard on the first One Minute Singles) pivots from lo-fi automotive absurdity back to the breezy, perfect pop I originally fell in love with way back on Volume 9.

There are folk singer/songwriters, and then there are artists like Natalie Quist (playing the BoW 45 release show on September 2nd), who can create a 60-second gem like “Into the Wild Sea,” which sounds like it had been bouncing off the hills for a hundred years or more before she pulled it out of the air.