Everything All The Time

Today's Music of the Day is Everything All the Time, by Band of Horses. I'm surprised I haven't wrote about this album yet so today seemed like a fair opportunity.

Anyway, this album sounds a little like nostalgia and uncertainty with a sprinkle of angst but no real rage. It's sort of a sad dog without any real teeth, I guess. The sound is mostly electric guitar with a thin tenor voice. Maybe this album sounds like Bright Eyes with an amp? That's not exactly it, but it's along those lines. There is energy here, particularly on songs where the guitar gets to make a little noise ("Funeral"), but mostly it's pretty laid back. While the songs do have a dreamy, tender quality to them, the album is pretty conservative in its sound. It's not a bad sound, but after four or five songs of the thin voice and the silver guitar sound, it's not hard to guess what will happen next.

So, in short: decent album, though hardly unpredictable. It's not really dynamic enough to be offensive in any regard, which is not a positive here. This is a nice album, 'nice' being the key word, as people who buy albums for being nice generally expect a certain degree of minimal stimulation from their music.

In Other News:
I am in a sour mood today. Perhaps a little better now than earlier, but still kind of cranky. I'm not even sure why! Attribute it to old age, I guess.