Loney, Dear "The City, The Airport"
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
The cover of Loney, Dear’s record, at right, offers all the evidence I need about lead Loney Emil Svanängen’s take on either subject under discussion in “The City, The Airport” (mp3). His approach to the unique influence of metropolitan areas and the people that populate them (”lotta people doing things they don’t wanna do”) shares a few of David Byrne’s lyrical neuroses from the first two Talking Heads records, but a line like “I don’t want another life that’s killing me” situates Svanängen as more shaky rural twee than unbalanced participant observer. The music is an exercise in dynamism—the low-key verses just a warm-up for the ornate, sproingy choruses, which seem deceptively celebratory, but I’m not ready to sign on yet. The whole song (which, by the way, is insanely catchy) imagines a collaboration between Broken Social Scene and The Boy Least Likely To, the latter opening its toybox and doling out instruments to the assembled members of the former.
Loney, Dear’s record is called Sologne. Buy it hereabouts.
Loney, Dear’s myspace.
ELSEWHERE: Be sure to check out Contrast Podcast 8 (theme: “8+ minutes”, inspired by this). I’m all up in there with Bobby McFerrin’s “Circlesong Six.” I still sound like a boob.
I didn’t know boobs could talk ..
Thanks again for your contribution Eric and I hope you enjoy listening to the completed podcast!
Saw Loney, Dear at SXSW – parking lot, middle of the day, 20 people milling about. They were wonderful!!!