로-파이 인디록의 모든 문법을 만들었던 전설의 밴드 Pavement의 메인 보컬이자 주축이었던 Stephen Malkmus의 세번째 정규앨범이자 2005년 신보. 마치 과거 Pavement 시절로 돌아가려 노력하는 사운드가 역력하지만 약간은 새로운 느낌으로 다가오는 데 몇 몇 곡은 좀 더 과격한 'Wowee Zowee' 앨범의 곡들을 연상케 한다. 전체적으로 안정되고 인상적인 연주와 센스는 이 앨범의 성숙함을 말해준다. 가끔 가다 역시 재치를 놓치지 않는다는 것 또한 본 음반의 장점 중 하나이다. 올해 가장 중요한 인디락 앨범중 하나.
All Music Guide 평점 : 4.5/5 Pitchfork media 평점 : 8.7/10 Fakejazz 평점: 9/12 .... ....
What you gonna do? I don't know, my friend But I'm open to suggestion if you'll proffer two cents Give me something I can hang my coat on, yeah!
Nine times out of ten I'm not the guidance type I've been sitting on a fencepost for the brunt of my life And now I need some help to find out what I feel, it kills
It kills the time Until you fill your heart, you'll see There's more to you than what you think and need
Where you gonna go? I don't know, my friend But I'll take this road forever or until it does end Here or there or someplace else, man, anywhere!
Maybe to the west Where they don't fall down In a canyon of a valley in a twenty-horse town A voluntary rest home where they lecture you, it kills
It kills the time Until you fill your heart, you'll see there's more to you than what you think and need
We can share our bland opinions About the quality of air and all will be right All will be right on top
There's a place in old dominion Near that courthouse by the square Where all will be right All will be right on top of the day
Rationalized confusion, memento morial You're turning ugly into ease, you're naked in a towel Well pride's a swollen subset It will never never never pipe down
At the yoga olympics, murdered by a single kick You tower over everything the rest are dog tits The cemetery headstone is a rock in the rain, the rain Is pain
I've hardly been Cannot get in Unlike the sky: Wide and never lost
The fallacy of selflessness, the friendship etiquette Normal is weirder than you would care to admit Fatigued by socialized You're tired and tender
I went to see a "go to gigs a lone type of band" They elucidate something that all alone understand The shab ability to locate quagmire hearts on the map It's a trap!
I've hardly been Cannot get in Unlike the sky: Wide and never lost
We meet again Riding our divisible bodies Feel no shame Luck is love is on
If you need the pain Well you are, yes you are so much like me Seasons change--nothing lasts for long Except the earth and the mountains So learn to sing along and languish here Help me languish here
It was long ago That all of your willing dimensions Lost the flow And vanished in vaneer
But iI want to know If you are, yes you are so much like me Steel restraints Zodiac ballet, everybody play There's no more counting days, you languish here Help me languish here
You said, "done is good," But done well is so much fucking better Share the wealth And cauterize the tears
If you want to know Well you are, yes you are so much like me Freeze the saints Such a subtle read, exquisite pedigree Just let yourself be and languish here Help me languish here
Came from the top of the deck Warm and direct No more shoes No more news No more blues
Iranian gown on your frame Born to the game No more shoes No more news No more blues--getcha back!
All my stray thoughts They are unarranged All my stray thoughts They are impure
Give me sidearm compliments Give an autopsy of the event Such uneven principles Time and time and time again Spare me your contrarian thaw
Beautiful nerves, send you wild Lost in a pile Of old shoes Of old news Of old blues
A gallery of vivid dreams Torn and extreme No more shoes No more news No more shoes No more blues No more, no more, no more, no more No more more more more blues