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Friday, June 23, 2006
"So you want to build an altar on a summer's night / So you want to smoke the gel off a Fentanyl patch.."
Silver Jews - 'Punks in the Beerlight'.
The most unexpectedly amazing opening to an album I've heard all year; knocked me halfway across the room, I swear.
Sounds like David Berman got up one morning and accidentally wrote the most sublime, hard-edged power-pop song since Big Star and Springsteen walked the earth*. Being an obtuse, miserablist bastard, he made a few attempts to camouflage it, throwing together some of the most oddly moving lyrics of his career in the process.
Then he shrugged his shoulders, surrendered to it, called up his band and got cracking.
*I know officially speaking they still do, but.. y'know..
Silver Jews - 'Punks in the Beerlight'.
The most unexpectedly amazing opening to an album I've heard all year; knocked me halfway across the room, I swear.
Sounds like David Berman got up one morning and accidentally wrote the most sublime, hard-edged power-pop song since Big Star and Springsteen walked the earth*. Being an obtuse, miserablist bastard, he made a few attempts to camouflage it, throwing together some of the most oddly moving lyrics of his career in the process.
Then he shrugged his shoulders, surrendered to it, called up his band and got cracking.
*I know officially speaking they still do, but.. y'know..
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