I didn't write this. I thought maybe some people on the net would like
to know how some people outside of the Maritimes view the scene. My vote
is it's wicked.. Anyway, this is from Surface, one of many Queen's U
student papers. I haven't listened to Forever Again in its entirety, so
I can't really say whether I agree with this guy or not. If you a gree
with him, great. If not, then that's okay, 'cuz what can anybody not on
sloannet know about good music anyway?
Eric's Trip
Forever Again
subpop
There music is the sound the class wallflower makes when you goad
him into speaking. A giddy, halting confessional that sputters out of
the speakers--hopelessly inarticulate, but caringly crafted. Things that
have been stored up for years. Guitars crackle, voices trail off, the
mix rises and swells with flubbed notes and broken chords. The effect is
giddy and uncomfortable.
the voices are Rick and Julie's, and this time the story's all
theirs too. Julie's pregnent, Rick's reticent and Forever Again tells it
all. It's hard not to turn away as the doubts and recriminations fly.
"I'm so scared", they whisper, "Will you be the same person/ who left
before the fall?"
In "About You" kulie tells her parents. "Girlfriend" is Rick's
revision of the relationship as B-grade horror--it's as if the new baby
is an alien larve, and Julie it's gruesome incubator. "I don't love
you', he tells her. But the end brings reconciliation, and the two are
reunited forever...again.
It's hard to touch the kind of sincere emotional froufrou. But
the fact stands that Forever Again is, maybe understandably, Eric's Trip
at hteir most inbred. The lyrics are spare and wounding but hte songs
are slaphappy simple. Tuneful like a circus jingle, Forever Again is
hardly accomplished music. Rick's home studio, Stereo Mountain, never
seemed so small. What was once a monolith of fuzzed-up emotion looks
like a patch of dirty shag carpet in the flickering light of a fleamarket
lava lamp.
There's no doubt that Eric's trip mean IT, but what is IT
really? Canada's most creative new band are falling prey to the same
emotional excess that makes them great, and the retreat is taking them
places that only diehard fans want to go. B-
-Sean Saraka
Gee, maybe I really hate this review, now that I've reread it. I guess
it's hard to be called inbred and slaphappy simple and take it as a
compliment.
Remember, I didn't write it, I just copied it!
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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