I thought, after seeing how well you, Bloor and Derris rated that Hold Steady, and the whole "album named after a Kerouac passage" thing, that I would dig this more, but, much like the last album, it gets a big
from me, and I know exactly why: The vocals are mixed way too far down, so instead of hearing his modern-day-Springsteen-by-way-of-Phil-Linott-lyrics, all I hear are guitar riffs. Maybe if I could read the lyric sheet I would like it better, but it hasn't even got my attention that much.
(There is also a chance that y'all have finally caught the dumb, and I remain beyond reproach, but only a chance)
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Throughout his life, from childhood until death, he was beset by severe swings of mood. His depressions frequently encouraged, and were exacerbated by, his various vices. His character mixed a superficial Enlightenment sensibility for reason and taste with a genuine and somewhat Romantic love of the sublime and a propensity for occasionally puerile whimsy.
harry Wrote:
I understand that you, of all people, know this crisis and, in your own way, are working to address it. You, the madras-pantsed julip-sipping Southern cracker and me, the oldman hippie California fruit cake are brothers in the struggle to save our country.
FT Wrote:
LooGAR (the straw that stirs the drink)
