length: 10 songs, 36 minutes
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1. The First Song 3:43
2. Wicked Gil 2:57
3. Our Swords 2:26
4. The Funeral 5:22
5. Part One 2:35
6. The Great Salt Lake 4:45
7. Weed Party 3:09
8. I Go To The Barn Because I Like The 3:06
9. Monsters 5:21
10. St. Augustine 2:41
These guys do a pretty fantastic job of mixing post rock and folk elements to create some fantastic songs. They also boast a very unique vocalist, and don't try burying him under guitar lines or crashing cymbals. The delivery on this album is pretty great, and it has a couple of real gems, but for some reason i can never make myself finish listening to the whole thing. I think it's one part i have the attention span of a three year old child, my boyfriend is forever complaining about how i will listen to the first 30 seconds of 100 songs instead of letting any of them play. And the second part is despite all it's got going for it, the record sort of melds into one giant song towards the end. Then again, who knows you might think it sounds like fucking garbage, or you might think im an idiot and this whole record is one giant diamond in the rough. YOU NEVER FUCKING KNOW!! I'm not saying i'm infallible, i mean i refuse to capitalize the word i because i'm to lazy.
Regardless, i still think it's worth posting on here, take a listen if you find at least one song on it then i've done my job. Also like six of these songs are in the film Assassination of a High School President which has Bruce Willis being totally weird and Mischa Barton still pretending she could be young (and slutty) enough go to my high school. Like i said, give the record a spin or at least listen to the song The Funeral because its really great, and who wouldn't like a band who titles the first fucking song on their record The First Song? amirite? oh look something shiny....
sounds like: Manchester Orchestra, Lydia, Small Leaks Sink Ships
bump.
