365 project. less of you is more than i can take...

day 2.

album: the moon is down
artist: further seems forever

say what you want about Chris Carabba (i know i have) but this album is one of my favorite albums lyrically of all time.

with lines like "And those with defeat on their faces/are those that we must keep alive" from the title track and "but pasted wings and foil rings do not an angel make" from the bradley make this a CD that i find myself coming back to time and time again.

a few years ago a friend of mine was starting to widen her taste in music and asked me to help her out in this process. i love to share the stuff that i love, so was happy to help, and the first CD i shared with her was this one. i feel like it never gets stale and that i can spin it and still feel the same emotions i felt when i first listened to this album back in 2001. i may be a different person now than i was ten years ago (that's so gross that all of my favorite albums are or have celebrated their tenth birthdays recently) but the music still hits me the same exact way as it did then.

its hard for me to pick a favorite song on the album, and even harder to pick a least favorite. this album does not contain a song that i skip over. there are only 10 songs, and its a rather short album, but it goes full force for the entire 38 minutes and 53 seconds.

the only disappointment i have about this album is from skate and surf in 2005. i was SO excited to see the band reunited with Mr. carabba and playing this album in its entirety, but the fire marshall decided to be a huge dick that day and closed off the entrances so that many of us who had been waiting to get in weren't allowed. on the upside, i did get to hang out with the one and only Matt Pryor (the get up kids, new amsterdams, terrible twos) by the vagrant records merch tent, where he played for us a whole mess of songs acoustically, which was pretty sweet.

i did get to catch the whole set later as someone that was there recorded it and put it out on the interwebs for everyone who wasn't allowed in, but it depressed me to watch knowing that i was just outside of those doors and couldn't get in...(side note, i saw Kevin Divine for the first time on the acoustic stage during this skate and surf. i was hanging out waiting to see...straylight, i think, and i didn't want to miss them so i went in early and stayed put. i didn't fall in love with Kevin for several years, though, because i suck.)

anyway, i love this album dearly and will go to my grave recc'ing it to anyone who wants a solid record with a lot of emotion. go ahead, call it emo. its a better definition of "emo" than the one used today.