From last week:
"When you punish a person for dreaming his dream, don't expect him to thank or forgive you!" sings John Darnielle on The Best Ever Death Metal Band In Denton. It's a killer of a title track, filled with, as it says in the liner notes, The sound of a long-broken machine, deciding, on its own and without the interference of repairmen or excessive prayer vigils, to function again. As well as a musing on the Panasonic RX-FT500, it seems that that's a stencil for the relationships he sings about with such bitter passion. His lyrics are frighteningly clever, beautifully witty, and forced to the forefront by simple strumming and then buried in the crackle of the cheap stereo condenser microphone. The songs are what one could call basic - but it takes a long time to squeeze everything out of this album, and that's the mark of a truly great songwriter.
West Texas! West Texas! West Texas!
8.8/10
Mollx
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