365 project: "what if it was true, that everything we thought was right was wrong"

111.

artist:Manchester orchestra
album:simple math

the release of this album sort of snuck up on me. i mean, i "like" Manchester orchestra on facebook, so I've seen all of the updates about solving math equations to stream new tracks and things like that, but i honestly didn't pay much attention after hearing the first week's song, the title track of the new album, "simple math". 
i didn't not like it or anything like that, i just didn't find myself drawn in enough to continue checking in every week. i figured id just wait til i could get my hands on the album and go from there.

i like the album. i don't love it, but i like it. I've listened through about three or four times now, though none of them straight through, and i cant even figure out if i have any clear favorites. there are parts of songs that I'm in love with, and that id marry if it were legal (not to mention feasible) to be wed to a part of a song, but then there are other parts that i just don't hear because they sound like everything else that i put in my ears these days.

there are a few times during the course of the album where the actual music makes me stop breathing because of how beautiful it is. i posted on facebook last night that the strings on a few of the songs on this album make me want to fall in love. its so bizarre for some notes or a melody to have that kind of effect on someone...makes that same piece of their heart jump that does when falling in love.

 i need to spend more time with this album to make a full assessment of it, but i think i like it enough to keep in in the starting rotation. I'm sitting here reading the lyrics along while the song "simple math" is playing and it just kind of clicked for me whats going on in the song, and its so sad and so vulnerable.

"I'm lost and hardly noticed, slight goodbye
I want to rip your lips off in my mouth
And even in my greatest moment doubt
The line between deceit and right now

Simple math
It's how our bodies even got here
Sinful math
The ebb and flow to multiply"
those last two lines made me gasp. the song seems to be about infidelity, and those lines are written so perfectly to describe what is going on.

here's the song, since this seems to be what i do now. the video for this one is pretty superb:

I'm falling asleep at my desk. i need to go to bed. i either need to start doing speed or invent a way to add more hours to every day.