For some reason when I loaded this album onto my favorite mp3 player for the first time, the order of the songs switched around – the album has some sort of bonus track action so it lists out two “track 1” options and blah blah blah I finally figured it out. Like just now. Ok, this isn’t a review on having my head up my ass. Ok, so first time through I was stuck on “Dead Hearts” – I love the melody and the production… it really flows in and out giving it this…. Ghostly (oh bummer) feel? The struggle I had with the song was the eerie dialogue; “tell me everything that happened,” “they had lights inside their eyes”. I was expecting one of the voices to start talking about the evil orks and the nasty elvin warriors – I had this flash of some sort of concept album centered around a particularly rousing D&D game. Luckily this was not the case. At all. The pop-ish melodies with hugely synthetic sounds are contagious, and the harmonies are fantastic. Very pretty – all of it. I find myself drawn to the “bonus” tracks – the remixes placed at the end of the album (but which play on my little mp3 device near the beginning because… well… because they apparently want to). For the record, “The Last Song Ever Written” is my favorite song this week. ‘tis the bomb. Like the kids mean it. |
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