by Tin Bird on Thu Mar 19, 2015 11:25 am
Chad, I loved Adz, although it is so super busy w noises and sounds that it took me a while to take it all in....I love the album but feel that the electronics actually overwhelm some of the tracks a bit...
as for Illinois...I have to disagree with your description of "happy".... c'mon John Wayne Gacy, The Seer's Tower, Concerning the UFO Sighting near Highland, Illinois certainly are anything but "happy'.
Some of my fave lyrics from the album:
"And in my best behavior
I am really just like him
Look beneath the floorboards
For the secrets I have hid"
"Still I go to the deepest grave,
Where I go to sleep alone"
"Goldenrod and the 4H stone
The things I brought you
When I found out you had cancer of the bone
Your father cried on the telephone
And he drove his car into the Navy yard
Just to prove that he was sorry"
quite introspective, borderline depressing if you ask me....
Either way, I think he is a genius ...whether or not the more stripped back acoustic based new album will appeal to me as much remains to be seen. I'm thinking it will....
When I cannot sing my heart...I can only speak my mind...