When it Comes on Like a Dream
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Music is about emotions. Taking something intangible and letting it seep into what you feel. Letting it become part of your constitution. You just never know when this transference is going to take place. When the osmosis occurs and the dizzying aspect of music takes over, the dream happens. Music and great art should be a somnambulation.
This is how I got knocked out by When it Comes on Like a Dream.
The album is painful-a subtle anguish. When listening to Brian's "Never Feels Like Home," I get the same feeling in my sternum that I had when I first heard Ryan Adams' croon at the end of "Come Pick Me Up," where his voice sounds like its going to crack in half. And, it fucking hurts. The major themes are all present on the album: redemption, romance, optimism. However, they are broached with disillusionment. Not that the idealism is gone, it's just a more harsh and realistic attachment. The record's beauty lies in the truth of its aim: trying to create something more grandios
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Baby That's What Dreams Are Made Of
author: John Darcy
The lyric “You said you’d meet me where the axis turns and then you never show” from When it Comes on Like a Dream’s opening track, “Above the Half Light,” really jumps out at me and grabs me by the fucking jugular. It jumps out at me the same way as “though I like to play the part of being tough, I crumble like a sugar cube for you” from Yo La Tengo’s “Sugarcube” does. Or the way Molly Jong-Fast writes about making the mistake of regarding the truth as poetic when in reality it’s pathetic in Normal Girl does.
The idea of being let down really resonates on this album. It would be too easy to compare the themes on this record to, oh say, OK Computer. And besides it would probably be wrong. The lineage is the same. This is music for the let down generation. But whereas Radiohead is alienated by it, Brian Sendrowitz is inspired by it.
Whether it’s a woman doing a number on a guy (“Rosaline”) or a guy doing a number on himself (“Television”), the idea is the same. In
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