Slaves' Graves and Ballads (CD)

The Dirty Projectors

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Label: Western Vinyl Released: 2004
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"Slaves' Graves and Ballads" presents a merging of classical and pop music. Its lyrics further develop Dave Longstreth's shrubs-at-the-edge-of-the-lot imagery from last year's debut "The Glad Fact," marking how the landscaping in large parking lots makes us feel different about ourselves. Tricked-out Hondas, subwoofers, sunsets, woodchips, chiropractors: all these pieces of the American strip mall coalesce in a vivid meditation on the technology that domesticates and the instinct that resists domestication. What "Slaves' Graves" discusses in a collective way, "Ballads" explores in a personal, individual way. Here, the MO is personal heartbreak and romantic yearning. Uniting them both is the idea that what's most true is the hardest to see, because it's unbearably simple.

Tracklisting
Disk  | 1 
1 Somberly, Kimberly
2 On the Beach
3 (Throw On) The Hazard Lights
4 Slaves' Graves
5 Grandfather's Hanging
6 We Are Swaddled
7 Hazard Lights (Reprise)
8A Labor More Restful
9 Unmoved
10 Ladies, You Have Exiled Me
11 Because Your Light Is Turning Green
12 Obscure Wisdom
13 This Weather
14 Since I Opened

 

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