Thursday, February 25, 2010

Blood Heart Scene 5 Pusooy on and on in the breaking dawn

I accidentally spent about 9 hours barhopping today, because it was my only half-day off this week and also because the comic book shop could only hold my attention for so long. I don't really drink so I am still totally sober but it's just really informed the mood today. And I was planning on sharing this anyway but could there be a more fitting day for it? I don't think so.




LFTRPLLR

The Soft Rock compilation will change your life.

Lifter Puller was a band from Minneapolis. They existed in various line ups from 1994 to 2000. The band released three full length albums, one EP, and a number of singles. Band members Craig F but the first is the stumbling, shady morning after.
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Pitchfork says it best: With his first band, Finn's lyrical tics and themes were well in place already-- shady nightlife characters that introduce themselves with preposterous nicknames, unexpected collisions of different music-scene casualties, people fucking in bizarre locales and somehow waking up in even stranger ones. But it's all just a bit more threatening and sordid, the humor bleaker, the redemption more elusive. It could be that Lifter Puller's style puts an additional edge to things; trade in the Hold Steady's bar-band classic rock for a beat-up indie rock/newish wave that staggers between sludgy and jittery, and it'd be hard not to make the allusion-filled literary/pop-cult debris of Finn's burnout milieu feel just a bit more unhinged. I'm worried That Makes it sound wanky, Because god, is it not. It's fucking epic. Biblically epic. Worldbuilding kink is a bulletproof when it comes to music and lyrics, and Finn does it like no one else has to do it Thought events. There's one world, and it has lots of messed up characters, and it pretty much spans Every City You Could Possibly play a show in, Every City with a bar big enough to set-up your drum set and stand in front of it. But There's No Doubt it's all one world (and it's still That One world Now That he's doing The Hold Steady), and you know it's One That exists sort of Right Beside your own, But You're kind of glad You Can visit in the songs and you do not really Have to Live There. It'sdirection and fumbling around trying to figure out what the fuck is next while not being totally sure you even want to know. Which is pretty much exactly the wasteland I've been living in since graduating four years ago (and even more since losing that real adult job almost six months ago).

He's also the voice of the Twin Cities, my secret ancestral hometown where everyone's Polish and lapsed Catholic just like me, and he's the voice of this weird little culture of growing up with punk shows at the all-ages clubs and 7 Seconds and Gang of Four and Agnostic Front and how you let your boyfriend dictate the bands you listened to and how even the girls will start fights, which is also just like me.
"Let's Get Incredible"

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