2012-11-20 20:22
麻油女郎
Extra Life - Dream Seeds (2012) [Indie Rock/Alt. Pop/Neo-Folk/Experimental]
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Extra Life - Dream Seeds
Label.........................: Nothern Spy
Genre.........................: Indie
StoreDate.....................: Apr-10-2012
Source........................: CDDA
Grabber.......................: Exact Audio Copy (Secure Mode)
Encoding Scheme...............: Lame 3.98.4 V0 VBR Joint-Stereo
Size..........................: 88.10 MB
Total Playing Time............: 52:17
Release Notes:
Each of Extra Life’s three albums have come across as closely-guarded
confessions. Not the kind a killer or an adulterer makes in exchange for
a clear conscience, but those of the shamed victim, the one cursed to
wonder whether they’d done something to provoke the mistreatment they’ve
received. Secular Works, the band’s debut, explored such notions as they
present to the outside world. It discussed with clear omniscience
pathological and social maladies like bleeding and blackmail, allowing
the listener to observe the pain and shame of its narrator. Meanwhile,
2010’s Made Flesh, as its title suggests, dealt with lust and the
betrayal one feels as they journey from innocence into a world of
corporeal desire.
Further advancing this study, this year’s Dream Seeds is Freudian in its
methodical examination of childhood shame. Here, the narrative is
revealed more gradually, as if being patiently coaxed. It takes place
neatly in the mind of a young person, one perceptive enough to
anticipate the pain they will cause others as trauma festers. We find
that secrets have been embedded deeper than they ever have before, and
have more alarmingly manifested themselves. The world of Dream Seeds
contains beasts that lurk through both waking thoughts and dreams,
cursing their beholder and those closest.
As with all of Extra Life’s recordings, awkward meter, panging
instrumentation, and Charlie Looker’s altar-boy vocals make the album a
wrenching affair. A child’s voice, devoid of emotion, opens the album
with the bleak utterance, “No dreams tonight.” Minutes later he adds,
“Tonight I’m shut down/ And I don’t want to see those parts of me.” As
shuddering as it seems, the metallic catharsis of Extra Life’s two
previous albums is replaced here with meditative prophecy. In the rueful
cries and sweet wallow of “Little One,” Looker sings, “I’ve never made
love/ Someday someone like me will hurt you/ That’s what I’m afraid of.”
And more alarmingly on “Ten Year Teardrop,” “I saw myself in 20 years/ I
saw the beast that I met in here.”
Musically, Dream Seeds crosses the fine line between brutal chamber (a
genre it in part defined) and art rock. Its adoption of more meditative
tones and off-kilter melody as opposed to metallic ones favors a greater
comparison to King Crimson’s Red than anything in ZS’ discography.
For fans of visceral pop music who have perhaps pondered items like the
origin of Leonard Cohen’s dark lust or Greg Dulli’s love-tainted
vengeance, albums like Dream Seeds only deepen the mystery. Here,
monsters lurk within innate and seemingly innocent thoughts and desires.
It’s a child prophesying a lifetime of heartbreak and mistreatment paid
forward. It’s corrupted dreams and misplaced vows of celibacy. The
subtle lines that sketch this world, shaped by both fear and shame,
connect to form one of the more gripping albums you’ll hear this year.
Tracklisting
01. No Dreams Tonight 4:53
02. Righteous Seed 5:39
03. Discipline For Edwin 3:42
04. Little One 6:15
05. First Song 5:13
06. Blinded Beast 14:09
07. Ten Year Teardrop 12:26
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