Promo Listening Experiment Day 2
Jun. 10th, 2008 11:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
koganbotMatt Bauer "Don't Let Me Out": Murder song that's lo-fi and quiet; so, understatement, or false understatement. Organ is on a half-accordion setting, gives the feeling of sound pushed through a strainer. First line: "I killed you and thought that was that/But right away your ghost comes back/And I can't get my hands around it/No, I can't get my hands around you." A haunted, restless murderer, his monologue being the impetus for expressionism: "The air was cool and the pines were long and draped down from the blackness." At the end, she takes a hammer and knocks the nails out of his coffin, but he doesn't want her to let him out.
The mood is set by gentle repetitive guitar picking; sounds nice for a moment or two but the cumulative result is mundane and mediocre. And the murder premise is a cliché, gives a sense of something dark and deep at work, but there's actually nothing much at work, even if it does produce some nice images and OK prettiness. Not worthless, but not a tick.
The mood is set by gentle repetitive guitar picking; sounds nice for a moment or two but the cumulative result is mundane and mediocre. And the murder premise is a cliché, gives a sense of something dark and deep at work, but there's actually nothing much at work, even if it does produce some nice images and OK prettiness. Not worthless, but not a tick.
