[mp3] you scared me nine, and now I'm feeling fine

Anton Barbeau - "Losing You Makes Crucifixion Easy" (mp3)

My excitement at the Loud Family having a new album on the way is tempered by the fact that it's a collaboration with Anton Barbeau, who has never been in Scott Miller's league when it comes to songwriting. Here, for example, you have a great melody laid over words that just don't mean anything. I'm even less impressed with the lyrics because it took me so long to realize they didn't mean anything; if you can create that good a facsimile of sense, it probably would have been easier to make it all hang together. Instead-- well, no point in dwelling on it. The song still demands to be hummed, and you don't necessarily share my finickiness about its flaws.

[From Anton's first album, The Horse's Tongue. Currently one can buy his back catalogue via 125 Records.]