Eskimeaux: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

August 28, 2015 by BOB BOILEN Eskimeaux’s OK is easily my most played album of the year, next to the Courtney Barnett record. There’s lighthearted, almost childlike beauty in the way Gabrielle Smith puts words to song. Here are OK’s first lines: In my dreams you’re a bathtub running You are warm and tender And bubbling Oh, you are cold and bristling and struggling As an adopted child, Smith discovered that her biological father is Tlingit Eskimo; she describes the -eaux suffix as “just a playful jumble