Album cover: Black Swans, “Words Are Stupid”

Black Swans

Words Are Stupid

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Awash in frustrated, hard-fought feeling, steeped in taciturn Midwestern reticence – not dour, just parsimonious: bandanas, fleece vests, three-day beard. A baritone like a cracking callous. Travel-weary but not world-. Ineluctable immediacy of incoherence. The lonely inarticulacy of love, lust and longing. Folk made by folks who make folks uncomfortable.

Reminds us of: Springsteen’s Devils & Dust, if Springsteen was stoned and tongue-tied | Latter-day Ani Difranco | Pet Sounds, though not in the way you might expect

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Words by Andrew Iliff

Published on melophobe July 13, 2010.

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