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For Emma, Forever Ago

Wicked223Wicked223
edited 2011-06-05 20:27:29 in Webspace
We Played Some Open Chords and Rejoiced, For the Earth Had Circled the Sun Yet Another Year
No one will post in this thread other than @GLORIOUSLeader.

Anyway: I cannot, for the whole life of me, figure out what it so great about this album. It's at the most a collection of fairly well written indie folk songs, if a little too crooning and subdued for my taste.

The most it has going for it is a really fun-to-say title.

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  • GLORIOUSLeaderGLORIOUSLeader
    When in Turkey, ROCK THE FUCK OUT
    Perhaps I have a thing for these kind of albums, then. At its worst, it's slow and too melancholic; at its best, it's those exact things, but in a good way, as to accentuate the feelings of solidarity. 

    /word of day calendar

    Anyways, I really like how Calgary managed to do the same thing, but it's also a very well-crafted and interesting song.

    As for folk music, I don't listen to much; Illinois by Sufjan Stevens is a good orchestral-ish folk album, while Age of Adz is a good electronic-ish album, even if it is less folk.
  • Wicked223Wicked223
    We Played Some Open Chords and Rejoiced, For the Earth Had Circled the Sun Yet Another Year
    Perhaps I have a thing for these kind of albums, then.


    Yeah, you and the entire rest of the music press.

    At its worst, it's slow and too melancholic; at its best, it's those exact things, but in a good way, as to accentuate the feelings of solidarity.


    That's exactly my complaint about the album, as well as most indie rock I've listened to. Most of just feels so tedious, like it's ready to build into something bigger, or more forceful (like the intro to a song), but it never happens. Maybe I just haven't listened to enough of it, though...

    Anyways, I really like how Calgary managed to do the same thing, but it's also a very well-crafted and interesting song.


    You kinda lost me

    As for folk music, I don't listen to much; Illinois by Sufjan Stevens is a good orchestral-ish folk album, while Age of Adz is a good electronic-ish album, even if it is less folk.


    I've listened The Age of Adz and thought it was pretty beast, but I haven't gotten around to Illinoise yet, I don't know why.
  • GLORIOUSLeaderGLORIOUSLeader
    When in Turkey, ROCK THE FUCK OUT



    This is the gist of Illinois. It's very place-oriented folk; he gets into the mindset of the area and its people, and elevates the mundane to the ethereal. Take, for instance, how he claims in John Wayne Gacy Jr. how "He slew ten thousand people with the slight of his hand." 

    And by Calgary, I mean that it moves forward and it's energetic, so it achieves a layer of peace and serenity whilst simultaneously avoiding boring me. 
  • Wicked223Wicked223
    We Played Some Open Chords and Rejoiced, For the Earth Had Circled the Sun Yet Another Year
    Huh, that was pretty good, I should listen to Illinoise sometime...
  • GLORIOUSLeaderGLORIOUSLeader
    When in Turkey, ROCK THE FUCK OUT
    Also, it's not Illinoise; it's either Illinois or Come on, Feel the Illinoise!

    Why is this important? I don't know. But it is. 
  • snowbullsnowbull
    Cue-bey
    This actually sounds pretty good...
  • GLORIOUSLeaderGLORIOUSLeader
    When in Turkey, ROCK THE FUCK OUT
    It is. Buy it. NAO.

    Or just wait for his new album, which comes out on the 21st. 
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