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These personal/textual foundations disappear, completely vanishing with the exception of the shadow-self that remains, in the end, outside of and overpowered by the heart it once lived within. The central theme of the album is the perpetual slipping away of things: feelings, the Self, the Lover, the Other. These aren’t songs about strolling up and down a Jersey boardwalk in search of pizza and skeeball they're about total self-disintegration.
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“It ought to happen now,” says Kissinger.Įxploding Head, A Place To Bury Stranger’s follow-up to their much-praised 2007 debut, is the first healthy tooth-kick delivered to the hypnotized bums of summer.
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We can either spill tears into our Miami Vice beach towels, or we can face the frost and say, “Bring it on, motherfucker!” Henry Kissinger once said, “Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.” The discourse of summer-pop, like all flimsy structures, will one day be knocked to the ground in order to make room for new ones. The winter-gloom shall return, and a mass exodus to California has already once proven to be nothing more than a quick stop on the way to yuppiedom. There will be frostburn and snot-icicles where there was once sunburn and sand-snot. But when the sun says goodbye to the once-bright sky and the ice returns to haunt our hearts and turn our sidewalks into fucked-up, slippery, sloshed-out messes, the sounds of summer will, just like summer itself, fade away like all sunny-ephemera does. The “summer-beach-pop” discourse has been built up and proliferated with such force recently that it may take a while for most of us to realize how inexcusable it was to allow seasonal language to overshadow the caliber of the music itself.