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set fire to flames – “steal compass/drive north/disappear”
sings reign rebuilder

An album with a story, and a few actually great songs. The tender opening strains in “I will be true” recall the quiet sections of Godspeed’s earlier albums, and tracks like this one have the power of their more operatic tracks without the fluff.

For many Summers he would come Home, one Evening after Another, with his Collar melted, and tell his Wife that the Giants made the Colts look like a lot of Colonial Dames playing Bean Bag in a Weedy Lot back of an Orphan Asylum, and they ought to put a Trained Nurse on Third, and the Dummy at Right needed an Automobile, and the New Man couldn’t jump out of a Boat and hit the Water, and the Short-Stop wouldn’t be able to pick up a Ball if it was handed to him on a Platter with Water Cress around it, and the Easy One to Third that ought to have been Sponge Cake was fielded like a One-Legged man with St. Vitus dance trying to do the Nashville Salute.

George Ade, Fables In Slang

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Volta Do Mar – “The Sound of Day”
At The Speed of Light or Day

This introductory track to an interesting, slightly math-y instrumental album was one of the tracks that made me give a little more credit to bands who seem to value harmony but choose dissonance. Here was a track that so clearly lived in both worlds that I couldn’t help but be patient and just listen.