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Apr. 14th, 2010 07:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sebastienneThe new Indelicates album is up for download on a pay-what-you-want basis.
I've been listening to it non-stop for the last two hours.
Dark and political and clever and sexy and so, so true.
You need it.
If you remember dancing to Sixteen in the kitchen of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
pridehouse, or having your eardrums shattered in the Cellar, or crying at the failure of third-wave feminism in Our Daughters Will Never Be Free, then you need it even more. Because this album takes those themes, and others, and builds on them, with an intelligence and energy that's always teetering on the edge of despair.
"Be Afraid of Your Parents" in all its Weimar wonder reminds me of Amanda Palmer before she jumped over that shark and onto the failboat. "Savages" is heartbreaking and beautiful in its self-doubt. "Jerusalem" is every moment I spend around people from this university and, more worryingly, when I'm not watching closely enough, myself. Every other line is a pun or a reference (I'm on my third listen-through and I just caught a Bowie lyric!). And maybe there's more filler than on American Demo, or maybe I just haven't listened to it enough times yet. But it's better produced, I think, doesn't lose the energy of hearing the songs live like their first album did. And the songs that are good here are so very, very good.
I've been listening to it non-stop for the last two hours.
Dark and political and clever and sexy and so, so true.
You need it.
If you remember dancing to Sixteen in the kitchen of
pridehouse, or having your eardrums shattered in the Cellar, or crying at the failure of third-wave feminism in Our Daughters Will Never Be Free, then you need it even more. Because this album takes those themes, and others, and builds on them, with an intelligence and energy that's always teetering on the edge of despair."Be Afraid of Your Parents" in all its Weimar wonder reminds me of Amanda Palmer before she jumped over that shark and onto the failboat. "Savages" is heartbreaking and beautiful in its self-doubt. "Jerusalem" is every moment I spend around people from this university and, more worryingly, when I'm not watching closely enough, myself. Every other line is a pun or a reference (I'm on my third listen-through and I just caught a Bowie lyric!). And maybe there's more filler than on American Demo, or maybe I just haven't listened to it enough times yet. But it's better produced, I think, doesn't lose the energy of hearing the songs live like their first album did. And the songs that are good here are so very, very good.