“It’s a very nice album though, isn’t it?”
“Yeah, a little Mercury Rev. The hazy voice and all that.”
“He seems to do that well. I like that one line in the second song…you know, ‘If you see me by the liquor store, don’t tell my father…’”
“‘…and if you see my father down by the liquor store, don’t tell me anything at all’ or something. Yeah, that’s a good couple of lines. Very tragic. He sings about his mother taking pills too.”
“Hazy melancholia. I like the sort of alt-country/Mercury Rev/Flaming Lips sound mixed in with electric beats.” They listened to the record for a while. “He’s never missed a meal in his life, though. You can hear it.”
“The well-known trap of middle class pretensions?
‘Oh-I’m-so-destroyed-by-my-tragic-childhood and all that?”
“Yeah something like that. But maybe I’m just a cynic. Maybe he’s had it rough. Oh, the uncertainty!”
“Don’t you think some of the tracks are a little chaotic?”
“Maybe. Like, it’s difficult to hear where one track ends and the other starts. Of course that just makes the album a bit more, oh, organic?”
“Yes, definately organic. Reminds me a bit of Jason Molina from Songs: Ohia, actually, except he’s not very organic and he makes all his tracks stand out on their own. But the whole mood, the atmosphere.”
The record comes to an end.
“Let’s give it another go.”
“Yeah. It’s a nice record overall…Starts are always tough.”
“A 10?”
“Maybe not. 7 or 8?”
“Something like that. Let’s hear it again.”

Year Released: 2004
Label: Sub Pop Records
Related Link: The Elected
Date Reviewed: 2004-06-22
Author: Andreas