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The album, at first listen, sounds more optimistic than '[[Engine]]'', and it's certainly got a lusher, richer sound - lots of swirling guitars, even some pedal steel, I think. (This isn't surprising when you consider that '[[Engine]]'' was mostly set in Columbus, Ohio, certainly a less-lush setting than California.) | The album, at first listen, sounds more optimistic than '[[Engine]]'', and it's certainly got a lusher, richer sound - lots of swirling guitars, even some pedal steel, I think. (This isn't surprising when you consider that '[[Engine]]'' was mostly set in Columbus, Ohio, certainly a less-lush setting than California.) | ||
The mood is not quite as unrelievedly grim as it was on '[[Engine]]''; there are even a couple of relatively upbeat moments, such as the musically, if not lyrically, lighthearted "[[Lonely]]", and the slightly silly "[[Bad Liquor]]", in which Eitzel almost pokes fun at himself. ("You wanna have some fun?/No way!") And where '[[Engine]]'' expressed the theory that "outside this bar/There's no one alive", here, Eitzel insists that "Somewhere/there's people living", with a sort of incredulous hope. Still, the echoes the record leaves are, if anything, even more disturbing than the tone of '[[Engine]]''. | The mood is not quite as unrelievedly grim as it was on ''[[Engine]]''; there are even a couple of relatively upbeat moments, such as the musically, if not lyrically, lighthearted "[[Lonely]]", and the slightly silly "[[Bad Liquor]]", in which Eitzel almost pokes fun at himself. ("You wanna have some fun?/No way!") And where '[[Engine]]'' expressed the theory that "outside this bar/There's no one alive", here, Eitzel insists that "Somewhere/there's people living", with a sort of incredulous hope. Still, the echoes the record leaves are, if anything, even more disturbing than the tone of '[[Engine]]''. | ||
The prettiest songs here - "[[Firefly]]", "[[Blue And Grey Shirt]]", and the heartbreaking "[[Western Sky]]" are about loss, despair and how "the parade has passed us by." And the last song, the final impression you're left with, is the most hopeless: "Falling/And I can't see the bottom/Are you gonna be my last harbour?" | The prettiest songs here - "[[Firefly]]", "[[Blue And Grey Shirt]]", and the heartbreaking "[[Western Sky]]" are about loss, despair and how "the parade has passed us by." And the last song, the final impression you're left with, is the most hopeless: "Falling/And I can't see the bottom/Are you gonna be my last harbour?" | ||