Songs of the Decade
SpectrumCulture did a feature asking indepedent artists to comment on songs of the decade. Believe it or not, we’re almost at the end of this one. No surprise here, I chose to talk about ‘All My Friends’. It continued to be a wonderful piece of music to me [here's our cover if you like]. Although ‘Someone Great’ is a close second and the combination of those two songs in sequence on the record is very lovely.
I mostly like what I wrote but, in hindsight, it’s maybe a touch pretentious and ponderous. But, you know, sometimes you gotta drop the snark and get a little real.
Here’s a quote:
We will get old. The air will leak out of the balloon. In that space and spirit, James Murphy uses his own maturation into adulthood as a metaphor for all of us, for the gradual letting go of our youth and foolishness and the acceptance that we now enter an era of consequence.
I suppose one of the cooler bits about this piece is that I’m sharing the stage with Hutch Harris from The Thermals, Alan Sparhawk of Low, Franz Nicolay of the Hold Steady, Michael Zapruder, and a bunch of other great artists. Also, Chris Colthart is on there. Chris worked with Kelly Pushy White on the artwork for the physical packaging.
