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Today it's snowing and strangely I wake up happy, I've turned off my phone and removed the clock from my room so as not to have any unnecessary anxiety and worries... at least for the first days of vacation I want to forget the mess around. It's so nice to get up in the morning and see clarity everywhere. I leave the house to take a walk in the snowy village, mysteriously the chatter of people in front of the church after mass seems less bigoted than usual, provincialism doesn't bother me, and the newswoman seems almost talkative. Once back home, I want to continue this wonderful atmosphere I've created with the world today (which will end very soon)... a little music is what I need. Browsing through my many (but not too many) records, when the cover of "One Part Lullaby" by Folk Implosion catches my eye, I stop searching: this is just what I need.
As soon as I put the disc into the stereo, a drum lays over a vaguely electronic base accompanied by quite delicate guitar riffs... Then comes the voice of Lou Barlow, resigned and almost unrecognizable (if you think of "Bulbs of Passion" or "Don't" by Dinosaur Jr where he seems to spit his soul) singing a catchy tune. It's "My Ritual", the opening track of the album. The whole work continues along the same lines, pieces that are a combination of folk, pop, rock tinged with a bit of electronics and a layer (of course) of low-fi.
Songs that in their simplicity seep into your veins and bring a mix of light-heartedness and melancholy into our being... when I listen to this album I imagine myself walking in an American city in the rain, without an umbrella and among few people I don't know. Every now and then the downpour lessens and a few rays of soft light are ready to vanish soon. Meanwhile, my thoughts fall on a girl I love but don't have the courage to approach because she believes (rightly so) that I am a poor loser capable of putting her in a bad light in front of others... Just when the situation becomes really critical and suicidal thoughts swirl around in me, here comes the majestic "Noneed to Worry" to make the sun appear and dry my drenched body...
It doesn't really matter if "Back to the Sunrise" emits the last wave of melancholy. And to end this ditty of a romantic failure, I confirm the presence of a Lou Barlow in top form and in a different guise from what we were (or I was) used to.
- My Ritual
- One Part Lullaby
- Free to Go
- Serge
- E.Z.L.A.
- Mechanical Man
- Kingdom of Lies
- Gravity Decides
- Chained to the Moon
- Merry Go Down
- Someone you Love
- Noneed to Worry
- Back to the Sunrise
Tracklist Lyrics Samples and Videos
03 Free to Go (03:30)
Catching butterflies
Line drives, watching TV
I had seven good years till I noticed
They were looking at me
I didn't like what they see
Trapped in the back seat
Stay on your side
My hand out the window
Feeling the air rush by
While my parents fight
Where did you go?
Did I make you leave?
Another thing I didn't know
Nobody ever believes
They just leave
They just leave
And they'll see you
On their own sweet time
They just leave
I didn't leave my room
Till I learned how to drive
I was sweet seventeen
Fighting with the back of my mind
Till the wheel was all mine
Free to go, but still to young to leave
Old enough to think I know
That nobody ever believes
They just leave, they just leave
My plane landed, I'm alive
I'm not fighting with the things
I never thought I'd do to survive
Now we've finally arrived
Now I know, more than I've ever believed
You could never let me know
You were just as young as me
You had to leave, you had to leave
07 Kingdom of Lies (03:46)
Made it all up girl
Out of anger, out of passion
Turn yourself away
Make me lonely, love we only
Need a place to hide
Out of anger, out of love
Time crawls
There's like beyond the castle walls
Go, leave
I said I didn't mind
Did I believe it?
This time in my kingdom of lies
I'm alone
Turn the lights up girl
Turn your anger to conviction
All my shadows fade
They made me lonely
Lies that only
Turned your heart away
Out of anger, out of love
Time crawls
There's life outside these city walls
Go, leave
I said I didn't mind, did I believe it?
This time in my kingdom of lies,
I'm alone
Time crawls
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