I wrote this whole thing and posted it and realized I didn't say it was me, Chloe
Ok, so its been a couple weeks and the summer is setting in. I was thinking it was probably a good time for a new album, and a summer one at that. So I though through my favorite summer albums, Jack Johnson, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Maroon 5, Bob Marley, you know either really chill fun stuff or something you want to rock out to at the top of your lungs with all the windows down. But I was thinking that this is kind of a weird summer, so far anyway, and maybe it didn't feel right. So I decided to go with an album that I think of as somewhat summery, but also a great album to listen to while traveling. It is Pete Yorn's third album Nightcrawler.
I got this album toward the end of sophomore year having previously devoured his first album. I didn't really have much time to listen to it until Marina went on a trip to Ireland and Spain. I remember sitting on the train from the west coast of Ireland to Dublin watching the acres of green and the millions of cows pass by while I listened. The sun came in and out of the blanket of clouds an the light was that really luminescent purpley-gray when it looks like its about to thunderstorm. It looked so amazing in contrast to the most intense green of the fields you could ever find. I spent the rest of the trip listening to this album.
Enough with the reminiscient talk and the poorly descibed moments. Nightcrawler kicks off with "Vampyre" the one song that I never thought fit on the album and which I usually skip, but that's a different schpiel to go into. The next two or three songs kinda establish a definite rock with a twist vibe. "Undercover" gets a shout out (what is that cool sound he uses in the first verse??). Then it gets really good with "the Man", for some reason this song always makes me feel like somebody is stroking my head and telling me life is good. Maybe its the piano and the vocal harmonies, but I just love it. "Alive" follows a few songs later in the same vein. "Splendid Isolation" was really wierd to me the first few times I heard it, but I love the lyrics. "Ice Age" is probably my favorite Pete Yorn song. His kind of mumbling singing voice goes so nicely with the really simple and clean background. He layers a lot of sounds and they just blend so well together. I won't bore you with another mental image here-this one is just too complicated. "Band Stand in the Sky" wraps it up well by kind of summing up a lot of what the album was about musically.
Sorry this was a long one. I don't get to talk to people about this stuff very often and I get over enthusiastic, I guess.
Track List
1) Vampyre
2) For Us
3) Undercover
4) Policies
5) The Man
6) Maybe I'm Right
7) Same Thing
8) Alive
9) Splendid Isolation
10) Broken Bottle
11) How Do You Go On?
12) Ice Age
13) Georgie Boy
14) Bandstand In the Sky
Further Listening:
If you are interested, his first album musicforthemorningafter, yes its one word, is also really good. I didn't ever get his second one cause none of the songs really hit me, but he just came out with a Back & Forth, which is shaping up to be really good too.
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