Monday, March 23, 2009

vomiting winter

so this is basically the weirdest song ever.. (in it's own context).
i remember very distinctly them playing it last spring, during a very interesting night in new haven, and i even wrote down the title on my way home because i thought it was such a beautiful song. so then a month or two ago i found a nice recorded version on soulseek, and was super excited, but all it took was one listen for me to realize that what i had heard is totally absurd. so totally bizarre, and unlike anything else they've ever done. based on the lyrics, it's like some weird cheezy r&b song or something. like 'oooh baby, i love you, i wanna sex you up' type of stuff'. soo strange. i'm not saying this is a bad thing, and i'm not criticizing them for it at all, though i wouldnt say it is a good thing either. just confusing. regardless of what anyone else in the world says, i think their last album was not only one of the best records of 07, but ever. period. i love it passionately. it is a masterpiece. they're fantastic.
the song just confuses me so much, because it's like, them, only from another planet. very strange. i love the title, it stood out to me as well, and now that i've heard the lyrics, i can't make any sense of it. i remember thinking last may or whatever, that i had just had something of a vomiting winter, so to speak, (not literally) though they had probably written it for the previous winter.
maybe the song can be attributed to the fact that ----------censored mildly racist joke --------- i have no idea. but it makes me incredibly curious as to what their next album will be like. it's not like they hadn't written love songs before.. i just cant say enough times how baffled by this song i am. i remember the first time i listened to it, i burned it to a mix cd to listen to in the car, and i'm driving home, and all i can just keep thinking is "what????!" and of course laughing.

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