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Let me start by saying that I didn't discover Summer Lawns;
they discovered me. I'm new enough to this blog thing that I still
get a small thrill from having readers, much less readers who also
make music. Which is an invitation of sorts; my opinions can't be
bought, but they can be rented. Rates available; inquire
within.
But about the band: Summer Lawns has a slow and
languorous1 sound; they do a cover of
This
Little Light of Mine that's so low key it threatens to blow
that little light right out. I like it, not least for its audacity.
Just the sort of thing for a night's wallow in melancholy.
As is the rest of the album. Funny that
Piano
Song, the first track and
Choke,
the last, are the most accessible and, if not exactly cheerful, the
most relaxed and relaxing. It's as if the band wanted to ease us into
a mood and then help us back out again. Considerate of them.
- Which
Merriam-Webster
defines as "producing or tending to produce languor" or
"full of or characterized by languor". Now that's a big
help. I suppose I could go look up languor, but I just
don't have the energy.
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