35 Words Worth a Picture: Take music advice from someone who has poison ivy rash on their scalp. Out ruefully pulling up poison ivy vines in back yard with “Sober to Death/ Powderfinger” playing on my phone in my pocket. Charlottesville rock group Gold Connections has an EP, “Like A Shadow,” released Mar. 1, 2019 which is available on bandcamp.com
Car Seat Headrest came out with their new album, Making A Door Less Open, this week, which put me in the mood to get back to some more non-music non-college scene songs that you might have heard on the same Friday night – Will Marsh’s beautifully written, melodic Popular Fiction, or Icarus, or Pillars of Salt. Released by egghunt records, Richmond, last year on pressed vinyl, featuring beautiful cover art, these songs have been in the works for quite a few years. Look for this golden band in the Charlottesville area. I can’t explain how excited I was once, upon walking into the Meridian on a sunny Art Slam afternoon, to hear I Shall Be Released being performed by this sincere, awesome musical artist. I nearly broke the screen door when I pushed it open, helping finish the refrain, full of gusto. And actually, some of the music and the production of the album were done by Will Toledo. I’d call this album a mix between golden and grunge. The songlines are poignant and unabashedly committed to a relationship with someone who has a buried heart. Means more to me now or cuts deeper, listening at home, than it did the many times I dropped in on a crowded school performance. Time to be introspective, time since I’ve grown up a little. Now it seems a little silly to hear the lyric “back when we were young, so young,” because I look back on college more like a time of youth now, and anything before that – I just don’t think I take myself as seriously anymore. (Comes with the territory of parenthood and weird sleeping injuries, new allergies. I have a lot to keep up with.) Maybe my past will always be comparatively innocent and simple. There’s a balance on this album between lyrics and guitar leads. Guitar tone is bright and there are lots of tinny sharp tones. The singer’s voice is bright too, but frequently stretches out to a gritty. If you loved Sonic Youth, The Infinite Jest and classic rock, tune in: I think a retrospective review is perfect for this album, because that seems to be how the album came together. The best songs from college work all finalized in production after college was over.
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