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Postscript: instead of reading this review, go to a bookstore and buy "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" by Dave Eggers, it's much sillier and more fun than what you're about to read.
No, we're not there (call back later… buahahah). Why did I buy this CD? No, actually I didn't, but for a moment let's pretend that on Saturday I went with all my super depressed friends to our super depressed trusted dealer to ask for a CD that could convey the exact dose of depression. Our super depressed shopkeeper comes back to us while we've attempted suicide a couple of times by cutting our veins with the labels that alphabetically divide the super depressing CDs of our dealer with this People Are Like Season. So we return to our metropolitan lair made of pure autumn depression and insert this ultra depressed CD into our super depressed stereo made exclusively with a mix of autumn leaves. The result? Well, depressing (in both senses). During the first four tracks, we continue to weave necklaces and amulets with twigs, moss, and a generous dose of autumn leaves until the fifth track Darkness shakes us from our torpor, leading to spontaneous orgies for the entire duration of the song, always in the name of ultra autumn depression. The same goes for If a Change Is Gonna Come. Tired and tested, we fall back into our autumn depression for all the remaining four tracks of the CD. This group that seems to be led by Mr. Robin-oh-my-God-I-no-longer-have-veins-to-cut-Proper Sheppard, but their biography is so long and sad that I preferred to stop before seeing my pack of Tempo tissues run out, doesn't have: 1 feeling, the songwriting process must have gone more or less like this: buy a method for guitar and piano/look for the most depressing chords/insert them into a random song generator/send CD to the label/wait/earn 2 sense 3 sense 4 sense. I would have liked to hear fewer depressing voices/depressing guitars/depressing piano/ethereal atmospheres, it's not necessary to use these components to make a record that celebrates depression. I could play around with my castanets for hours and achieve a much more depressing result. So put the disc back in the case, yes, I know you wanted to be depressed but this time accept it, it's not for you, recompose the cellophane as best as you can and return it to the shopkeeper, and say you were mistaken and actually, you were looking for Battles In The North by Immortal, a new life is about to begin. (note: in this review, terms have been used that probably, and I emphasize probably, don't exist, don't worry about it, after all, none of us really exists "the truth is out there Scully" "Mr. Spock get us out of here" "I feel the Force is strong in you" "On page 11 of the Religious News Summary section we erroneously stated that Jesus Christ was a kind of dirty and deviant proto-hippy. In fact, Christ was the son of God, we apologize to the readers")
Tracklist Lyrics Samples and Videos
01 Oh My Love (04:32)
I thought I knew ya
But I guess I was wrong
You only see the things you convinced yourself you saw
But like you said I guess ya
Maybe I'm blind
Well why don't you open your eyes
You might like what you find
Chorus:
'Cause I been waiting
For such a long time
Your love is still
Fresh in my mind
And oh my love though I wait
Can't you see
I can't wait forever for you to say you love me
I thought I knew ya
But I guess I was wrong
You only see the things you convinced yourself you saw
But like you said I guess ya
Maybe I'm blind
Well why don't you open your eyes
You might like what you find
Chorus
And oh my love
Though I wait
Can't you see
I can't wait forever for you to say you love me
Chorus
And oh my love
Though I wait
Can't you see
I can't wait forever for you to say you love me
And oh my love
Though I wait
Can't you see
I can't wait forever for you to say you love me
02 Swept Back (04:49)
You're wet around the edge
Tired of swimming upstream
You thought you'd just rest a while
But you were still swept back to me
Swept back to me
Swept back to all the grief and the worry
Swept back
Swept back
But I know you don't deserve to be broken
So just focus on the light
Focus on the light
Well we push and we pull
But still at least we never feel empty
And can't we just pretend
That I'm an island in your sea
Let's give in before we're swept
05 Darkness (Another Shade in Your Black) (04:11)
Your obsession with death fascinates me
Wet my head in your poison stream
Weigh me down with your ideas of the infinite
And I will drown
I will drown in your
I will drown in your
I will drown in your poison stream
Your obsession with death fascinates me
Wet my head in your poison stream
Weigh me down with your idea of the infinite
And I will drown
You said you're attracted to the darkness
Well baby, that's okay by me
I'll just be another shade in your black
I will drown in your poison stream
You said you're attracted to the darkness
You said you're attracted to the darkness
You said you're attracted to the darkness
Well baby that's ok by me
I'll just be another shade in your black
I'll just be another shade in your black
I'll just be another shade in your black
I'll just be another shade in your black
08 Holidays Are Nice (03:29)
Holidays are nice
Holidays are fun
Holidays are wonderful
If you're the one
That's leaving on an airplane
Sitting on a train
or just wasting time
Watching the clouds take shape
And God I wish that I was running
Somewhere with you today
Everything's lovely
Yeah everything's fine
I've got more than I need most of the time
But still something seems missing
Like there's a crack inside
If we could just get away
And leave what divides us behind
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By giov
If you listen to this album in your room, an avalanche of dried autumn leaves will cover you up to the tip of your ears.
The album is good, but I believe that after a few listens many of you will move on to something else, forgetting it for a while (to then rediscover, in a couple of months, again how beautiful it is and so on...).
By humax4
Robin Proper-Shepard plunges into a new 'melancholic' mission under the banner of Sophia.
For those who love this band, this latest effort will surely not be the most beautiful album, but one of the best surprises of early 2004.
