This is my favorite thing by Anathallo. I heard from some dude (great source, I know) that the reason this EP is so good is that 'thallo wrote a bunch of songs and then picked the cream of the crop to actually release.
The title track starts off with guitar and some quiet brass that gets progressively louder until it reaches a crescendo. If the entire album were like this, we would call it post-rock. But it doesn't so... what the heck genre do we call this?
So the lyrics start, they and the music are both a bit grim. Even though the lyrics don't say so, I picture the hangman's noose. "What's there left to do?"
The answer, of course, is to do some shouty group vocals over jangly electric guitar.
Who could imagine a holiday? A holiday at the sea!
—CS Lewis
It's pretty simple wordplay, but I like the last lines of the song regardless:
Down there in the sea I should hold my breath until this other person's blood is washing off of me
Down there in the sea
I should hold my breath until this other person's blood is washing over me
Track 2 has more of those jangly electric guitars. As far as I know, this is the closest Anathallo's come to rocking out for an entire song.
The first 40 seconds of "Don't Kid Yourself" sound kind of country-ish.
Who will rescue me from this body not the arms, the fingers they grasp
they feel what they touch as well
cut the cords, let the ancient Adam go
I've been dancing with this corpse for 19 years
I love the snare drum in the middle of the song.
If you only listen to one track then you've heard like a third of the CD and you might as well listen to the whole thing.
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