Comments on: Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions – Blanchard http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=1286 Pop, to two decimal places Mon, 06 Sep 2010 11:03:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Ian Mathers http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=1286&cpage=1#comment-2598 Ian Mathers Fri, 04 Sep 2009 07:26:07 +0000 http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=1286#comment-2598 Shit, I didn't notice the guitar squeaks until I read these blurbs and now they're all I can focus on. Still a pretty song, although so far I think it's not a patch on anything from the terribly slept-on <i>Bavarian Fruit Bread</a>. Shit, I didn’t notice the guitar squeaks until I read these blurbs and now they’re all I can focus on. Still a pretty song, although so far I think it’s not a patch on anything from the terribly slept-on Bavarian Fruit Bread.

]]> By: Dave http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=1286&cpage=1#comment-2586 Dave Fri, 04 Sep 2009 01:16:50 +0000 http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=1286#comment-2586 Excellent Kavka blurb here, though I haven't heard the song yet -- it actually reminds me very much of Ashlee Simpson on "Autobiography." I would replace "trauma" with "disasters," most but not all of the more mundane variety, each pointing to a bigger unfulfilled need or life disappointment or failing. For Ashlee, expressing ideas and emotion will <i>probably</i> lead to more pain, if not now then eventually" ("Pieces of Me," "Better Off"). It's this uncertainty, and the hope that the worst won't come to pass paired with the underlying feeling that it probably will, that makes me keep returning to it, I think. Compare to, say, Marit Larsen, whose lyrics usually betray a pretty deep self-loathing whose relief is almost completely in the accompaniment. She's laughing in (not off) the trauma, most of them of her own obsession and neuroses, where Ashlee seems to genuinely believe that her music <i>might</i> help her (in most of her situations, the better life is just around the corner somewhere). Excellent Kavka blurb here, though I haven’t heard the song yet — it actually reminds me very much of Ashlee Simpson on “Autobiography.” I would replace “trauma” with “disasters,” most but not all of the more mundane variety, each pointing to a bigger unfulfilled need or life disappointment or failing. For Ashlee, expressing ideas and emotion will probably lead to more pain, if not now then eventually” (“Pieces of Me,” “Better Off”). It’s this uncertainty, and the hope that the worst won’t come to pass paired with the underlying feeling that it probably will, that makes me keep returning to it, I think.

Compare to, say, Marit Larsen, whose lyrics usually betray a pretty deep self-loathing whose relief is almost completely in the accompaniment. She’s laughing in (not off) the trauma, most of them of her own obsession and neuroses, where Ashlee seems to genuinely believe that her music might help her (in most of her situations, the better life is just around the corner somewhere).

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