tired pony: the place we ran from

You guys. Oh my god, I am so in love. (links below are 60 second clips of the songs on YouTube)

"Girl, you were beautiful before/ but in the cyclone I love you more/ there's a pause and the faintest smile/ as the storm rages on for miles"

"I have read your words a thousand times/ All inspired by smashed up love and crime"

"our shadows kiss before we do and right here in the dark/ I revel in the calm before the storm"

"everything is all at once with you, dear/ I can't see where the now starts and the next begins"

"all the troubles that I know/ look to me like great and heavy stones/ and all I want to do/ is slowly push and pull"

"you were saved by the good book/ I was saved by the half-full glass"

"when falling feels like flying there's a dangerous hope/ 'cause the ground comes at you faster than you think"


I had to restrain myself from just putting in all the lyrics to all the songs LOL I AM FIFTEEN YEARS OLD WHAT. I JUST YOU GUYS WHAT IS THIS I CAN'T EVEN.

I've had this CD on endless repeat for days now and I still hear something new every time. You have to listen to all the songs just to understand the flavor of it, because no single song sounds like any other song on the list. It was released across the pond in June and I was so bummed we'd have to wait 3 more months to get it here, and I wouldn't let myself listen to the tracks they'd released online because I wanted to wait until I could hear it all at once. So glad I did. I wasn't ready for this album in June. This is music for autumn.

(Also, check it: that image that cycles on their website of Greeley Ave? (Well, all the pics on the site, actually.) That's where the studio they recorded this at is located. I drive through there all the time, it's not far from the house. And they were there! Recording this kickass album! I could've, like, "happened" to be hanging out nearby and fangirled all over Gary Lightbody! And Peter Buck! And Tom Smith! And Iain Archer! And Gary Lightbody some more! Um, I mean, I could've...snuck in and listened in on their sessions? Yeah, that's it....)