I've got a shitload but get absolutely no use out of them. Dunno where I'd even begin.
I pray to mine.
I've got a shitload but get absolutely no use out of them. Dunno where I'd even begin.
After a hiatus of a few months, this (Lost In The Dream) came alive for me on a long car trek this weekend. I propped my laptop in the front seat with headphones plugged in and hit the lead to the floor as the eloquent, interweaving shimmer of guitar, drums, keyboards, some horn hidden in there too, worked their way into my brain. The themes that come in and out of focus, to very rewarding effect... and I'm talking musical themes here. Motifs or whatever you call them.
The secret of this act is that the singer isn't all that eloquent, or all that present or charismatic (and in live clips, sans studio echo, he's all but lost... geddit... in the dream that is the music). What he's singing about is relatable enough, not earthshattering but not untrue either. Being lost and at a loose end. Losing everything. Losing your sense of self. But the eloquence, that's what the music is there for. The closing minutes of first track 'Under the Pressure' are a fine example of what I'm talking about. I'd forgotten I don't hate music.
Two words as an entry point into this record: Unforgettable Fire. You thought I was going to say Bruce Springsteen or Tom Petty. But I've decided I'm not. It is not a simple 80s or 'classic rock' pastiche. There's more going on than that. It's more like, the music that someone younger who grew up on that stuff ought to be making. There's a song here that called up echoes of the piano bit from Layla, but again, not obviously. It's just stuff that's buried in the subsoil.
In the 'used to be in The War on Drugs' competition, Adam Granduciel is now coming out well ahead of Kurt Vile, for me. Imagine U2 ever allowing themselves something so expansive.
This is one of like three albums I own from this year that I still haven't heard. I'm sure it's awesome though, heh. Wasn't it the highest ranking 2014 release on that Pitchfork list a month back?
Does it feel like a disproportionate amount of people on this board get setlists from shows they go to? Like, it seems as though every time one of you go to a show, you come home with the setlist. I'm not even surprised to hear about it anymore. And yet, there are thousands of other people at those shows. Odds dictate that we shouldn't all have our own setlists sitting at home, but I swear each and every one of you has mentioned getting a setlist at one show or another.
All that said, I don't think I have one.
It's likely the highest ranking album in Bang and Clatter still as well. Listen to it or I will punch a walrus and tell people you did it.
I think I nabbed setlists from almost every dropkick murphys show I've ever been to, but that's because everyone piled onto the stage for the last song, and as I made my way to safety (back, and then off to the side of the stage), I'd snag the one that had presumably been taped to an amp so Matt Kelly, their drummer, could see it. No one ever seemed to go for that one, and it didn't get trampled by the mob.