Trips and Falls - "Marginally More Than Mildly Annoying". Forgive the scarcity of blog-posts; this is a honeymoon, after all. Tonight I am not in Maui, I am in Kauai, at the end of a day that went all wrong. Small all-wrongnesses, missing green lights, getting stuck in traffic, dragging red mud all through the house. A long day in paradise, and I kept parking in the wrong spots.
I admire Trips and Falls. This spindly guitar-pop needles between wired delight and bleak despairing - like ascending a mountain through countless sloping switchbacks. "Please kill me," it begins. "Don't tell me no." But it feels more like a carnival ride than a suicide note - there are layers of irony, remove, self-mockery. Like the Shins and PiL braided up together; a drooping hair-do; a gummy noose swinging from a tree.
You have a day like mine and this is just the thing you need. A loser's anthem. A shithead's hymn. Something to nimbly kick you in the heartache, remind you that everything that matters is going right.
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Posted by Sean at November 9, 2013 1:23 AMA long day in paradise, and I kept parking in the wrong spots.
What a great sentence. Don't know why, but I love it.
Posted by Michiel at November 9, 2013 6:00 PMNothing quite like traffic and red lights to instantly add stress to a day. Better wishes for the roads tomorrow!
Interesting song... a lot of chromatic chord progressions. I can't say I love it but I appreciate that they're doing something different.
Posted by Corey Lennox at November 11, 2013 11:24 AM
and it will begin playing. All songs are also available to download: just right-click the link and choose 'Save as...'
