Erin

oneweekoneband:

Two Way Monologue- Live at the Bowery Ballroom, September 5th 2012

Two Way Monologue is Sondre Lerche’s most ornate and intricate album. It draws on the chamber pop arrangements of The Beach Boys and The High Llamas, most notably in songs like “It’s Over”, “It’s Too Late”, and “Maybe You’re Gone”.

In his commentary for the vinyl reissue of the album, Lerche comments that “Prefab Sprout, more than anything, was a huge, huge influence on Two Way Monologue”. On the title song specifically, he says, “It’s a song I wrote right before I moved out of my mom’s house, and it’s directly inspired by a song called ‘Moving The River’ by Prefab Sprout. It was such a huge revelation, almost a revolution, to hear some of their music and it opened all sorts of doors and it led me to write the song, so I’m grateful for that.” He echoes this sentiment in his episode of The Song That Changed My Life. “Two Way Monologue is very inspired by Prefab Sprout. Just the sense of freedom that that music gave me. It even has some obscure references to their lyrics. I thought it would be to pay subtle tribute to Prefab Sprout”

The most obvious of these obscure references is in the lyrics “’Cause I’m optionless and turkey free”. In “Moving The River”, Paddy sings, “’Cause I’m turkey hungry, I’m chicken free”. I’m not sure what either of them mean by this though…

Instead of using the studio version, I’ve included a live performance of the song (again from the September 5^th Bowery Ballroom show I was at) because the song has such an amazing energy live. You can see me boppin’ around at the bottom of the screen when the camera moves down at 3:36. WOO!

helloyouhellome:

caragh:

gregrutter:

Not listening when people tell you that you can’t or shouldn’t do things is so fucking metal.

Holy moly.

Hello metal kids are incredible.

Whoa, these kids are the coolest.