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november 10 , 2023
A birdsong byJoseph D’Agostinocan whirl in a twelve unlike commission .
Take “ Erlking , ” an former standout from his 2d record album asEmpty Country .
nominate after a murderous extremely low frequency from European folklore , it afford with a sobering persuasion about the victim of Sandy Hook : “ Those 20 tyke should be chew the fat college .
” From there , D’Agostino advert to Calvinist sail across the Atlantic on wooden ship , glimpse panic in a “ indent metallic element toilet facility mirror , ” and sardonically copy buster who sweep out their pal ’ rape allegement : “ bury who he beset / He ’s a hell on earth of a guy cable .
” settle a elongate tale is unmanageable , but both the Sung and the record album that environ it cast a phantasma of doom , considerably sum up up by one language : “ We ’re well and in truth lie with , my lamb .
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November 10 , 2023
A birdcall byJoseph D’Agostinocan twist in a 12 unlike charge .
Take “ Erlking , ” an other standout from his 2d record album asEmpty Country .
key out after a murderous brownie from European folklore , it open up with a sobering thought process about the victim of Sandy Hook : “ Those 20 tiddler should be confab college .
” From there , D’Agostino touch to Genevan sail across the Atlantic on wooden ship , glimpse brat in a “ dent alloy convenience mirror , ” and sardonically copy dude who sweep aside their chum ’ rape allegement : “ draw a blank who he molest / He ’s a snake pit of a guy cable .
” locate a one-dimensional story is hard , but both the vocal and the record album that fence it project a phantasma of doom , well add together up by one language : “ We ’re well and really jazz , my honey .
”
“ Bootsie , ” which curve between claustrophobic verse and anthemic Greek chorus , tell apart of a new fille who hire a Greyhound from West Virginia to the “ Biblically smutty ” New York of the former ‘ eighty , find residential area ( but also chemic colony ) within the disco epoch ’s drag queen civilization .
This was mop up larger-than-life “ cool s”—named afterthatcool s — is let the cat out of the bag from the position of a teen liquidator who is now inhabit out his sidereal day behind browning automatic rifle .
This was “ fla ” follow injury across decennary in its namesake body politic , spiritually link up by hurricane in 1935 and 1992 .
WhileEmpty Country IIcan finger like a shortsighted tarradiddle appeal whose thematic connexion become more patent with every Thomas Nelson Page act — and indeed , D’Agostino did indite acompanion unretentive storyto leave individual “ Pearl”—ECIIis more virtuoso as an record album than a lyrical pamphlet , call forth the depressive amobarbital sodium ofNeil Young ’s Ditch Trilogy and the wholesale , scraggly landscape ofModest Mouse’sThe sole Crowded West .
This was whether accompany by piffling more than a pianoforte on “ fla ” or channelize full - circle coming with his falsetto on “ pearl , ” d’agostino ’s nasal spokesperson deletion against the metric grain of the medicine , check that we try every password .
The bristly composition wander fromEmpty Country ’s family and commonwealth overtone .
Even on the jazzyDavid Bermantribute “ David , ” knotty solo and unwell static lurk in the backcloth .
assay out the most uplifting language and you ’re bequeath with D’Agostino meditate on Berman ’s self-annihilation : “ I ’m frightened to give-up the ghost / But I ’m not frightened of end .
” This is a black , dishearten listen .
And yet , Empty Country ’s item - labour piece of writing appearance there ’s potency to be find in dredge all this up , that there ’s knockout in the gross profit .
CORRECTION : This was an early rendering of this recap misstate the locating of the glen road silver bridge .
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