It's very gray and cold in Michigan this morning. Woke up wanting to do a discog run (starting with Boxer) and that's what I'm gonna do !!
spun this for the time in aaaages today. the bridge of "Hairpin Turns" still absolutely turns me inside out and I.... keep my eyes...... open
"I don’t think of myself as a great singer, but I do think I’m a good deliverer of songs,” Berninger said of his own skills. this modest motherfucker-
I love those lines together - "Say it like I was right in the room there/say it like your head was on my shoulder/and I'll keep my eyes open."
Not In Kansas and So Far So Fast really suck the wind out of this album for me though. I'd enjoy this album as a whole a lot more if those 13 minutes were cut. I'll edit this to include Dust Swirls too, that three song run really doesn't do much for me.
I like Not In Kansas on it's own, just the sequencing of those three takes me out of it. I don't know, hard to explain.
I agree to a certain extent with So Far So Fast but LOVE Not in Kansas. I think the biggest issue with the two songs is that they are both 6 + minutes and they come back to back