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As they used to say in the TV adaptations of the Peanuts comic strips: good grief. But Stevens went further. In a series of troubled-sounding interviews, he claimed he'd begun to question the point of releasing any more albums or indeed making music at all.
As it turned out, he didn't quit but did something even more surprising. As the messageboards attest, his latest album has succeeded in confounding his fans: no mean feat, given that his fans previously bore even a 5CD collection of Christmas songs with good grace. Futile Devices sounds precisely as you might imagine the opening track on an album by an acclaimed singer-songwriter of bookish mien to sound: a delicate guitar figure, beautiful Simon and Garfunkel-ish melody.
And then, just as you're wondering what the big issue might be, track two arrives. Stevens has dabbled in electronica before — his album Enjoy Your Rabbit was a challenging instrumental cycle based around Chinese astrological symbols — but he's never really tried to harness it to his songwriting, nor meld it with the more-is-more approach to arrangements found on Illinois.
The beauty of Ohio based, The National is it grows on you like good pair of rainbow sandals. At first you think to yourself, this is just stiff and awkward, there is no way i could spend more than an 30 minutes with these things. But before you know it, you stick with them, and they become the most comfortable, feet pleasing, article of clothing you own! This is no understatement, and about 1 million socal OG's and 10 million wannabe's will vouch for me.
So, with The National you might at first think, is this guy serious? Please get this picture out of your head. I am so sorry I did that to you. Anyways, the National have been around for about a decade and they continue to bring solid indy alt-rock albums that are polished enough for old folks, but edgy and complex enough for the most pessimistic hipster.
The 5th installment and their latest, High Violet is close to a masterpiece. They continue the great songwriting and devastating, understated lyrics but have really matured with exceptional instrumentation and complexity.
Each song is filled with layers of drum work, electic guitar, epic piano and then layers and layers of texture coming from i'm not sure what. And now I must give The National my highest compliment. But with the National's High Violet, that never happens. I can't imagine changing or adding to the songs at all. They just feel so full and complete. What comes to mind is a quote from my favorite person, It is finished. Other things to check out by the national: song, Fake Empire. Things not to check out: every obnoxious politcal involvement, just pretend it never happened.
Posted Friday, May 28, 0 comments. Scott Pilgrim. I'm excited, I love Edgar Wright, and I also really like Scott Pilgrim, I'm not the comic type of guy but I read this and it was pretty good, thumbs up for sure! And from the trailer it looks like a pretty freaking rad movie adaptation of a comic, Im totally into the onomatopoeia.
This is the summer movie I'm anticipating the most. I'll let you know more after I see it. And not to mention the final book comes out this summer too! I will be taking a little break from doing any posts for the summer. Because of my job I wont have much time for discovery or blog upkeep. Just wanted to give you all fair warning that posts might be sparse, but we'll be back in full swing in September.
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