i've been struggling to find inspiration recently. Searching through old scribbled notebooks of high-school and listening to the prolific and tear-jerking in hopes that that one epic chord of that one epic Akron/Family or Wolf Parade song will spark the missing link between Act one and two in this latest literary venture of mine. But alas, all listening efforts proved fruitless for my wrists aching to ache from feverish jotting.
Then this EP appears out of the blue. i grab it eagerly, put it on, and 'oh'. There it is. The doctor had a thing with the mom. Of course. And the tape wasn't cut, just ruined somehow mid-viewing. Yes. Why didn't i think of that?
Well. Actually i did. But not sooner.
Though the music has no place in the film being written, it's interesting how inspiring the unsuitable can be.
So where's the link?
How can folk songs and acoustic ballads bring ideas to light in a film better suited for electronic untz jams and indie rock chorus swells?
It's the heart of it. i'm trying to make something with heart. Something that means something. A specific story with some uplifting something ambiguous in name but indisputable in emotion.
This EP holds lyrics much like those of his former releases. Some specificity exists, but most songs drift so vaguely between emotions and air-born imagery that one can't help but detach themselves from literal interpretations and instead find more meaning in the strums of strings and octaves raised by the raspy croonings of this lovely Swede than in the words he loosely links together.
The album drifts between the bluesy-folksy feel of his earliest work (Debut S/T EP and before) and the more refined, studio feel of his last EP ('The Wild Hunt', my favorite LP of the year, available for download below).
Get it.
It's .... inspiring?
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