Karmic Whiplash - Pool

First there’s the lyrics. “Just because I genuflect doesn’t mean you have respect.” No, don’t ask me if I’m sure I know what it means. Just sounds really cool when he sings it. But, better than that. It really sounds like he’s dribbling a basketball back and forth between his hands as he’s singing. Really. Now, that’s cool. Never heard that done before, and I have respect for that. A bit into the song there is a guitar entering, but the ball still dribbles. Then, we’re back to the lyrics. “We were chained together by the things inside that let us fly.” Catchy enough to make me think it’d deeper than it probably is. Okay, picture the scene by the pool, and he sings: “You keep standing more erect, you have a steel rod in your neck.” There’s a lotta things happening in this song, and it bears up to repeated listening and contemplation. A+ in eartaste’s view. Shoutouts for Second Brain and Blindfold. Karmic Whiplash

Brendan Themes - Slow

Some people have fun fooling with my head, and I love ‘em for it. For example, Brendan ends this EP with a song called Slow. That’s okay, lotsa artists end their CDs with a slow song, it’s a given. But it’s fast. And full of lyrics! They slide by so fast that Brendan sneakily makes me listen over and over. Of course by then, it’s a part of my life, and I have to keep it in my forever collection. And like everything else in my forever collection, I have to tell my eartasting friends about it. “Shut all the windows, open up the floodstream.” Brendan Themes

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