The World's Stuffed With Feathers, Table-Bottom Gum Holding It Together
Posted Thursday April 3, 2008, 5:36 am, Over one day old
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It's their job, and it's ultimately sort of mundane. They go inside of bodies, see things that may only be viewed one time by the naked eye, but it's all very impersonal despite the terrifying intimacy of the activity. Well, not walking -- it's like some sort of sulky frolic.
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In the songs that are not directly or indirectly about relationships, he's either dodging the topic of himself with oddball narratives or abstracted language, but even then, there's this feeling of "hey, let's see what happens, let's find out what's out around the bend."
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Here's another comparison that works: Tyler is a lot like Stuart Murdoch of Belle & Sebastian, at least in the sense that even though his band is largely a showcase for his talents, he insists upon prominently featuring the voices and musical contributions of his friends.
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Planningtorock "Think That Thought" (Stringed Up Version) - I'm not usually a person who privileges acoustic instruments over synthesizers (it's often the other way around), but this new string-based arrangement can't help but to make the album version sound like a home demo.
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The Childballads "Stewart Hassle" (Live in session for Fair Game) - Stewart Lupton has a new strategy: He's writing new lyrics upon the foundations of respected classics, which is both supremely ballsy, and in line with the folk tradition.
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They were clearly going for some sort of '80s romance here -- I mean, c'mon, the song is mainly characterized by its smooth saxophone leads -- and they are entirely successful in capturing something sort of relaxed, elegant, and mildly decadent, with just a tinge of melancholy and regret.
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I mean, for example, isn't it so much better to fill-in in the blanks on a song like "Escapade" and surmise that she wants to take her boyfriend to some sort of fuck colony, instead of just flat-out singing "I want to take you to a fuck colony"?
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Adam Green "Twee Twee Dee" - I think Adam Green gets a real kick out of making the listener constantly doubt his sincerity, and contend with the bizarre, sometimes incomprehensible mixture of over-the-top irony and genuine feeling in his songs.
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