Twenty-one songs from someone named Dustin [Goldklang].
"Open" will make you feel really sad. "Growing
Up" will make you feel sad but in a nauseating way almost
with the organ sounds. "A Musical Thing" with its cheering
people choir will make you feel warm inside. "Myspace Comments
Won't Save You" is about that one annoying friend you have
on Myspace®
who keeps posting bulletins about how you should comment on their
pictures and believes you should also fill out their boyfriend
application. "Rap Song" is a hip hop song that might
sound a bit funny but is really good, the stuttering part
especially. "Let Go, This Is It" will make you feel
happy, as if you just asked someone to marry you in the Springtime
and they said "Maybe." "The Head of a
Dead Cat" is a quick, fast, upbeat song that ends with the
bleak head of a dead cat thing. "The Game" is something
Dustin seems to be losing. "True Posture" is another
sad song that Elliott Smith wished he had written. "True
Nature" is about trees and rivers and clouds and birds and
leaves stopping. "Everything" is about not knowing much.
"Don't Worry" is maybe about how you shouldn't worry
but it ends too quickly. "Freedom" is as long as how
much freedom there is in the United States - perhaps. "Flies
In the Park": flies having sex! "Being Alive" is
amazing pretty much. "Everything" is returning kind
of. "Waiting" is about what to do with time, maybe grow
a beard, read a book, or throw out the trash. "What I Am"
is what he is. "Just There" is where we are right now.
"Home" is where Dustin will be after his too long tour
that is coming up. And there is an extra track that's not mentioned
["dancing on nothing"] that is of crickets chirping
and a recording of Alan Watts quoting a poem. The song "Myspace
Comments Won't Save You" is also on Zoaster
Records Compilation One, along with songs from The Mathletes,
Dear Astronaut, and Cartwheels In Central Park. And if you happen
to come across someone named Maddy Avram, give
her a thumbs up for the artwork for this album. It really is one
of the best album covers I've seen in too long.
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