You may come to love them as I have but many will be discouraged. After all, they're quite white, nasally, and irremediably haunted. Fair warning, in any case. One of the more traditionally instrumented tracks on The Last Great Strike , the acoustic strum melds with the soft Fender Rhodes, upright bass and distant violin. They came to see this sadness displayed.
Vibes punctuate the monologue as a maelstrom of howling electronics blows beneath.
She was yelling at her little boy who had found a dead bird and brought it into the house. The narrative goes exactly nowhere. Richard plucks the nylon guitar strings like plucking on the nerves themselves in pointed, rhythmic pops. Bringing Home the Last Great Strike is unique in trafficking so liberally in human misery without ever approaching angst. The Last Great Strike is a jukebox anthology of American unhappiness.