| |
|
Kill the Moonlight is just a fantastic record. Really amazing stuff. From the contraction of "That's the" to a sibilant "t'sa" on "Way We Get By" to the human beatbox rhythm of "Stay Don't Go" to the maniac laugh opening "Back to the Life," this CD is the best thing I've heard in a while (although the new Flaming Lips rec is fairly engrossing too...). Don't let's forget "Jonathon Fisk" speaking with his fists and counting the teeth of the song's narrator every night. Somehow they manage to evoke the past without even a whiff of rehash, spinning out precisely excellent songs that have a feeling, at times, of wild abandon. An enigma of a band. And how is it that they're from Austin TX and the singer sounds like a Brit? Hmm?
[You'll have to excuse my admiration of Steely Dan...my dad listened to them all the time when I was a youngster, and I'm now sentenced to the Fagen Ward of hell where all they play is white funk. "Everyone's Gone to the Movies," indeed. I'd say that for me, Girls Can Tell evokes all these different bands--forgot to mention the Elvis Costello/"Take the Fifth" connection--without sounding like any one of them. Just another mystery.] |
|
|
