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August 27, 2009
Can I Interest You in Walnut, Teak, Ash, or Beech?
Pas/Cal - Cherry Tree (Suite Cherry pt. 2)
I don't know how this record didn't become more popular. What a great title!: I Was Raised on Matthew, Mark, Luke & Laura. What tremendously catchy songs! This album is like an indie pop Ulysses--the band hops from style to style, and all the sounds are so painstakingly rendered and recorded. It's pleasing and rich. Casimer's lyrics are both clever and funny. I will never not love this song, which is pretty close to being flawless, I think. Reminds me in a weird way (via its tiny perfection) of the Joseph Brodsky poem, A Polar Explorer:
All the huskies are eaten. There is no space
left in the diary, And the beads of quick
words scatter over his spouse's sepia-shaded face
adding the date in question like a mole to her lovely cheek.
Next, the snapshot of his sister. He doesn't spare his kin:
what's been reached is the highest possible latitude!
And, like the silk stocking of a burlesque half-nude
queen, it climbs up his thigh: gangrene.
Buy "I Was Raised on Matthew, Mark, Luke & Laura"
Buy Joseph Brodsky's "To Urania"
Posted by Kevin at August 27, 2009 01:28 PM