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Rating: How much do I like the new album by Lightspeed Champion?
The revived Dev Hynes settles in Omaha, Nebraska, and improvises as a pop-folk singer, after putting an end to him and the coquettish nu-rave from Test Icicles (remember them?). Rising from the ashes of the previous musical experience, under the moniker Lightspeed Champion, he invents from scratch the album "Falling Off The Lavender Bridge," a sign of his conversion and the changing (musical) times. An album that certainly doesn't change your life but is destined to "be marked with white coal" because it represents a small rarity in its introspective melodies, in its almost silken "manner," sometimes slightly awkward, sometimes too much, to the point of derailing into the dreamlike and naïve. An open-eyed dream or something very similar. This is the sense evoked by songs that last up to 10 minutes (musical times that change, as we said...) like the precious "Midnight Surprise," which, on its own, disproves the value of the only and first album of his previous band. "Dry Lips": another track where the succession of multiple instruments reveals a solid structure and an equally valid arrangement. Follow the seductive "Salty Water" and "Let The Bitches Die."
Nothing is left to chance in these twelve invaluable tracks that undoubtedly elevate the quality of certain shy, secluded, and absolutely niche singer-songwriter music even though these terms don't seem very appropriate for Our Man (except for his most genuine attitude and "bedroom pop," easy sound approach) given that he is already recorded by the prestigious Domino Records, a label of Arctic Monkeys, Franz Ferdinand, The Kills, Animal Collective. The breeze of Bright Eyes, of the early Okkervil River finds no difficulty in blowing and it almost seems that Lightspeed Champion is here to show us that a future is possible even after Belle and Sebastian aided by Isobel Campbell; but who knows if it is then an obvious promise for the future?
Domino's bike is now his, now we have to see if it is a great hope or just another well-produced/well-packaged album.
Have you also fallen off the lavender bridge or into the most modern of traps?
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
02 Galaxy of the Lost (03:57)
I feel better now I've seen you,
But deep inside my bones feel like timber.
And I am shaking from the tension and I will shudder at the mention.
Hate to think what would happen if I started to drink like you, maybe I will loosen up..well, pour me another gin.
Guzzle down,
My neck will burn as we kiss and I'm sick in your mouth.
I know you want more.
Well kiss my open wounds and add some ice,
and choke on my sick vice.
Oh girl the lights are on.
Trapped in bed,
as the poison slowly creeps in and stops me dead, should have known better than to cave in to such fantasies.
Guzzle down,
My neck will burn as we kiss and I'm sick in your mouth.
I know you want more.
Well kiss my open wounds and add some ice,
and choke on my sick vice.
Oh girl the lights are on.
I feel better now I've seen you,
But deep inside my bones feel like timber.
And I am shaking from the tension and I will shudder at the mention.
03 Tell Me What It's Worth (02:40)
Crack open the good times
On a street corner bustin rhymes
but you fell between the lines.
They all laugh, become a joke
Am i crazy baby let's all hope
for narrow halls, crunching drums
I've got the sweets sugar but that's all.
Tell me what it's worth
Tell me what it's worth
So tell us that we're spelling everything wrong
Negroes turn a blueish-grey when they're dead
That's funny 'cos ive just turned bright red
RED RED RED
Kill, kill, kill when everything starts to suck
Drownin all your sins boy well i geuss thats bad luck
The fact that your race is full of shit
I've got the sweets sugar but that's it.
Tell me what it's worth
Tell me what it's worth
woah woah
Clean your blades and start swinging
Don't stop till the red runs out
Till no more joy pours out of your mouth
Tell me what it's worth (Don't, dont stop till the red runs out)
Tell me what it's worth (Don't, dont stop till the red runs out)
Tell me what it's worth (Don't, dont stop till the red runs out)
Tell me what it's worth (Don't, dont stop till the red runs out)
woah woah
04 All to Shit (01:11)
This is all going all to shit.
What can I do it's me and you...ruined.
So now I'm leaving scratching out my eyes from sights I've seen.
I'm done being keen.
05 Midnight Surprise (09:55)
Shoot me into sleep, your beauty is so close to me
And even better still, warm nights and the chill
Creeping down my bones, reminds me I'm alone
My sweet midnight surprise, staple down my eyes
Stars I cannot see, take me galaxy
Deeper in the zone, 2-player combo mode
Creeping down my bones, reminds me I'm alone
My sweet midnight surprise, staple down my eyes
Stars I cannot see, take me galaxy
Ejacquantumbreeze!
And even better still, warm nights and the chill
Creeping down my bones, reminds me I'm alone
My sweet midnight surprise, staple down my eyes
Stars I cannot see, take me galaxy
Deeper in the zone, 2-player combo mode
Creeping down my bones, reminds me I'm alone
My sweet midnight surprise, staple down my eyes
Stars I cannot see, take me galaxy
Ejacquantumbreeze! Even in the sea
Replace all meaning - "I-spy"
Fuck, I think she just saw me, stop hiding in the sea
Shit, my midnight surprise has found out all my lines
Crunch time, night time, palm luxuries which I mistake for life
Don't talk to me, stay away unless you want me near you
I'm waiting in silence and cloaking my violence
You, almost encourage my happiness, but I know best
Wake up, smell the semen, this will never happen for you
Evil waits inside your home and shakes you through and through
Oh, wake up princess
I guess, deep down, my heart is not as pure as it was
And my food is ruined, the freezer doorway to above
I'll fire in the sun, I'm dying just for fun
And what is left of this?
My fare is calling down for you all to go away, forget this all exists
I fly up in the sun, I'm dying, just for fun
As I lay in bed, wrapped in cold sweat, just take me now
Shoot me into sleep...
09 Dry Lips (03:45)
So now i'm holding in my sides, and my bags are over spilling,this leads me to think.
My guts have started to boil, and my stomach keeps on spinning. thank you, my friends.
The next stop is not echo park so i've shut my eyes, i'll pretend instead.
You don't have to tell me this is wrong.
I know but i can't erase two years of my life.
Even in my dreams if you turn up i'm unhappy.
I take a step, and carve all the horns. the wings are trapped in the door,
I sure feel, the spit.
And everyone is staring,it's all so overwhelming, if they didn't look would i still complain.
Of course , i would.
A disquieting pre occupation,the keys to a nightmare which i taped,
And made sure, i watched daily.
This required a careful touch and a swinging chain.
Put the salty water in my broken wounds....
And then..
Tell her..
I give up...
He's won.. and i have lost all.
My humanity.
And now..
I give up..
I give this planet another 10 years at least, sarah... my sweet..sarah, my treat. keep running from me.
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