Thursday, March 22, 2012

New Orleans Swim Team - To Be Something, To Be Anything

Artist: New Orleans Swim Team
Album: To Be Something, To Be Anything
Year: 2011
Length: 55:46

1. Overture (Dreamer)
2. You Were No Ground Level Limb
3. To be Something
4. Hide and Seek
5. Manhattanhenge
6. Calloused
7. Plaster
8. Prairie Winter
9. Found
10. Summer Tinted Brown
11. Degrees
12. Like Anchors
13. Caught Between
14. Stillness
15. Your Holy Ghost
16. Recursive
17. To Justify
18. Ribs, and the Things Between Them
19. Wanderlust
20. To be Anything
21. Whatever You Want to Be

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This is completely different from just about everything I usually listen to and really completely unlike just about anything else. About 60% of the album is heart wrenching spoken word over lovely orchestral tracks. The rest falls closer to a conventional indie rock sound. For many, this album is going to be far too sappy and emo to be tolerable, but for many more this will be something captivating and sentimental. I am man enough to admit I have not listened to this album yet without crying a little (and nothing ever brings me to tears).

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