The Places We Lived

Today, I thought long and hard about reviewing a special album for my 150th blog post. Perhaps it would have been one of my favorites, or just something I considered to be important in terms of music history. However, I decided against that, and instead will complain about another album.

Hence, Today's Music of the Day is The Places We Lived by Backyard Tire Fire. This is an album I claimed via eMusic after having heard the title track on the radio one day when I was driving to get groceries. This song was a light, enjoyable piece of pop fluff, something like a rustic Architecture in Helsinki might play. So at the end of the month, when my eMusic downloads came through, I tracked this album down and downloaded it, largely on the merits of taking a chance on some new music.

It turns out that I didn't like this album all that much. The title track has a nice progression to it, but the rest of the album was sort of airy and unaffecting. It made me think that the band might have found the opening sheet of an A. C. Newman song and decided to run with it, without getting any of the electricity that comes in the latter parts of his songs. I suppose another listen might endear this album to me a little more, but I don't see it; this seems to be the sort of cute, earthy album I didn't actively dislike but that just didn't connect with me.

In Other News:
I'm in somewhat passable condition today. The weekend was harrowing but great fun.

Why the hell is winter here already?