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...interweaving and eventual fusion of two forms of songwriting, Darnielle demonstrated that, first, his songs could themselves be the story (as in “Tallahassee??), and, second, that songs written to a story (as in “The Sunset Tree”) need not forfeit their right to artistic merit...
...result of this combination is something similar to the feeling Darnielle described when introducing the fifth item on his set-list (“Old College Try,” from “Tallahassee??): “A cross-section of really really wanting the person you once loved to die… and suddenly thinking that they look totally hot in this type of weather...
...Tallahassee??’s strength is in the inconceivably un-ironic tone adopted by an ironically conceived fictional speaker. On Thursday, Darnielle referred to “Old College Try,” a nostalgic expression of regret and fatalism, as “that part in Tallahassee when everyone’s getting ready for a divorce… [accepting that] ‘that’s the way it’s going...
...Muses, and Cocteau Twins. Tallahassee, the first release on his new label, was a concept album that concretized the “alpha-series,” a smattering of songs scattered through his albums that told the epic saga of a Florida couple on the brink of divorce. Tallahassee??s follow-up, We Shall All Be Healed, is a similar album of cleanly recorded story-telling that inches the Goats closer to widespread popularity...
...International Small Arms Traffic Blues,” with its memorable comparison “Our love is like the border between Greece and Albania … there is a shortage in the blood supply, but there is no shortage of blood.” Tallahassee??s concept grows tired at times—one wonders in just how many ways this relationship can be described, but the arch to the album is successfully completed with the blithe closer “Alpha Rats’ Nest,” a hopeful plea for a happy perpetuation...