Everclear
For some reason this album has always reminded
me of Twin Peaks, especially the lead track "Why Won't
You Stay." It recalls images of drinking tons of whiskey in
a log cabin bar with a fire crackling in the background, while
life just kind of slides away, awash in memories and pain. The
dreamy production sounds as if the album was recorded at the
bottom of a huge gorge (or like the set of that Red Rocks, U2
video). That same dreaminess (read: drunken haze) gives
the album a kind of timeless quality that ould have been recorded
in several different decades. It would have been really interesting
to hear this album if a more stripped down approach had been
taken, a la Tom Waits, as some
of the emotional content gets lost in all the reverb and echo.
Warning: do not listen to this album while driving after a breakup,
as it has been known to cause tears to get in your eyes. |
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