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Compared to Lord Huron's other albums, 'Black Void' has more of a rock band feel, and less of that rural folksy vibe that pervades some of their more popular entries. This one's pretty far from Country music; it's more like desert. Desert outside of a dive bar, maybe. In the late 50's. In space. Think of the 'Enchantment Under the Sea Dance,' but with Weezer playing Fleetwood Mac songs that've been re-imagined by Paul Simon & Roger Waters. Something like that. You'll hear a few tinges of new-age influence here and there, but it's nowhere near enough to turn the music into a wishy-washy, 'Pure Moods' sort of hippy fest. Not that that would be entirely a bad thing. There's also less of their characteristic surf-pop pwanging. Yes, I just made that word up. It's not that the surfy stuff is entirely gone; it's more as though it has morphed over time into some other, interesting new jazz-like sound. The album has a swift pace at first. It drops in with a sound that reminds one of 'The Killers' at their best, which is then immediately followed through with an almost un-classifiably weird two-part rock ballad that's some of the best music I've heard in the last decade. The vocals are effective yet unremarkable—kind of the way that some of the simple things in life are still among the best—like plain potato chips & vanilla ice cream. It's just not a beautifully unique voice that makes this music so great; it's the assembly of it, the composition, the fit of it all together in a way that's just unbelievably all-over-the-place without ever becoming disjointed. Lyrically there's a really nice balance struck here between genuine regret and self-indulgence. What I mean to say is that the lyrics are sometimes sad and/or self-reflective, often to the point of being downright metaphysical, but they manage to do it without being whiny, arrogant, or pretentious. In a nutshell, the guy in the story is just like the rest of us: he has regrets, frustrations, ambitions, hopes, and confusion. He's been set back by life and love, and he feels the size of time, the weight of the universe above, and the smallness of his own place in it. Whoever she was, she was great for awhile. And she left him totally lost, disembodied. All of this as the inevitability of death presses down, or rather, looms. This album's different, but somehow it's my favorite. Just forget everything I've just said, and go into this one with zero expectations. Don't compare it to their other albums. Try to consider it as its own thing. If you do, you'll be able to appreciate it for the simple dark gem that it claims outright to be. -pocket83 April 2022Vollständige Rezension lesen
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But this copy came from The Boston Library and it wasn't mentioned on the listing. Was it ripped off for sale? Library stickers all over and CD not that old Just Wondering
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Good music
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The entire cd is good. Great musicianship, melodies and harmonies. Lyrics are thoughtful.
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Music is good…
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