Artist: The Format
Album: Interventions And Lullabies
Year: 2003
Nice to finally get a pop album here. After the political commentary so melded with Leo's work and Nick Cave's out-of-this-world musings, Nate Ruess is a welcome voice of simplicity, especially in the band's full-length. While I enjoy Interventions immensely, I feel it only set a bar that the band would throw to the sky on their follow up, "Dog Problems", which we will certainly get to if this music library is to be in any way complete someday. Interventions contains the band's swan song (well, pre-Dog Problems), "The First Single", which is... well, a great, addictive single done in Ruess' self-aware style. Another highlight is "On Your Porch", a very pretty song about coping with loss that has been in lots of movies and stuff like that. Overall, great debut, my favorite song being "Tie The Rope".
Hear it for yourself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apY9rP7iuHk
Tomorrow, I will be going with another CD that, despite not being the band's magnum opus, is great in it's own right: Cursive's "Happy Hollow".
"Tie The Rope" is my favorite song from the album, too. :)
ReplyDeleteGreat album (though not as good as the classic 'Dog Problems'). My favorite, and has been since day one, is 'On Your Porch'
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