Word: ashe
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...choice with Oberst is fairly simple: laugh at him or cry with him. Laughter is certainly the path of least resistance, especially when confronted with the two hulking new Bright Eyes albums--I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning and Digital Ash in a Digital Urn--released simultaneously on Jan. 25. Over the course of 22 tracks, there is exactly one attempt at relative lightness--"I always get lost when I leave the Village/ So I couldn't come meet you in Brooklyn last night" (well, I chuckled)--and Oberst whispers it lest anyone notice. His emotional palette...
...Wide Awake is an example of the circumstances in which Oberst can be great, Digital Ash proves how fleeting those circumstances are. The lyrics on Digital Ash remain models of thoughtful despair, but the acoustic warmth is replaced by a series of unremarkable synthetic burps and tinny keyboard riffs. One track sounds dangerously similar to Nena's 99 Luftballons. Digital Ash rocks harder but feels emptier...
...asks, Why didn't people run like hell? Some did, it turns out, and died anyway. Others stayed, out of fatalism or simply because they didn't know what a volcanic eruption was. They watch thunderstruck as pumice falls from the sky like an otherworldly snowstorm. Later, as superheated ash cascades, it is too late to flee...
...state so pure that it becomes almost unbearably beautiful. Her poems unfold in a burnt winter landscape, lit by cold, melancholy sunlight and littered with strangled, frozen hopes, where her only chance is to draw strength from pain. "Beware," she cautions in "Lady Lazarus," "Out of the ash/ I rise with my red hair/ And I eat men like...
BOOKS | Timothy Garton Ash...