Artist: eisley
Album: the valley
I cannot believe that I haven’t done anything on this album yet, but I am glad that I haven’t, because I have been listening to it nonstop for the past two weeks. Because of this album, I am officially back in love with Eisley. This has been one of those situations where every time I get into the car, this CD is still in my stereo, and I just cant bring myself to change the album because I feel like I am going to miss something if I listen to a different disk. Logically, this makes little to no sense, as the recorded information on the disk isn’t going to change into something else while its sitting in the cubby hole in my dashboard, but no one ever said I am logical, so there you have it.
I was still unsure about this album when I got my grubby hands on it, so it kind of sat around in my itunes just waiting for me to give it some attention. I had listened to the stream of the album when the band had it on their website before the release, and I liked what I heard, and knew from that stream that I was in love with the song smarter. This has not changed, as I think that song is still my favorite on the album, followed closely by the song sad. Both of these songs are widely thought to be written about Sherri’s divorce from Chad of New Found Glory fame, and the emotion that can be felt from this whole album, but these two songs specifically, is something so strong and so sad.
Not that the entire album doesn’t have strong, sad vibes. All of the girls went through a lot over the course of the years between this album and the one before, so there is a lot of sadness to be worked through. The other situation of note here is that the girls are no longer children, so while songs like trolley wood (which is one of my favorite Eisley songs ever, and up there on my list of favorite songs ever, period) and telescope eyes still have a special place in everyone’s heart, these aren’t the same girls. The girls that wrote The Valley have been hurt, and have been through things that none of us want to ever experience, but these are the things that make for good songwriting.
I love this album. It is going to rank high on my end of the year list. I am glad that I have welcomed Eisley back into my life with open arms, and that they still make such beautiful music. Now the task is to find something that I like enough to make me listen to something else.
And just for fun, here are some pictures from a time when i saw Eisley several years back.
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