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Mason Proper - "Miss Marylou Carreau" [mp3]
There Is a Moth in Your Chest [Amazon] |
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This one is half crazed swampiness, half disciplined pop song. It's an inspired amalgam [a mixture, usually of a variety of items or elements]. I really have no idea what's going on here lyrically but I love the spill of tangible, baffling [confusing] words we get from singer Jonathan Visgr, such as: "She bought a mug of bubbles from a bauble-hawker at the bazaar,/Supposedly an ex-czar from lands afar," or "Her now ignored automatic attendent M.I.A. on the floor,/Amid discarded decor," and what really nails these words-which, I'll admit, sort of just sit there on the screen-are how they scan in the music, which swoops up and down via intriguing intervals and syncopations, rendering physical the strange jumps and blank spots in this impenetrable narrative. I don't really mind if lyrics don't make sense because I don't really tend to hear them except as part of the sound, and Mason Proper seems a band with a great feel for words-as-sounds. The persistent crunch of the band's variegated [composed of a variety of elements or colors] guitar arsenal is another ongoing highlight, and there is to be sure no shortage of guitar in this song, from the villainous riff that underpins the verse (heard for instance at 1:06) to the multifaceted [having a variety of elements, uses, or abilities], multi-guitar showdown that begins at 1:52 and ends in a high-pitched drone somewhere around 2:40. That's a nutty and juicy snack for all you guitar fans out there.
Source: Fingertips. |
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