5/16/10

Nothing Keeps Up/brain

Per request, here's the Dad Rocks! track 'Nothing Keeps Up'. This is actually my favorite from the Digital Age EP. Acoustic guitar and toy piano trickle beautifully under Albertsson's prophetic and observant vocals, my favorite of which is "Nerdy codes and plastic bags might just do a little of the trick."


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And the seven colors drip down into the monster's eye, and it starts to write

soliloquies in memory of David, who fell into the abandoned strip mall with dust

collected on its ponderous, glass revolving doors. And what happens beyond the

green fires and violet plains of Elsinore: where there exist microscopic granules of

insane chipmunks, rolling around in the muck until their ghosts evaporate into sunlight

and graphite. And the drummers beat in 7/4, and the trumpets play in 5/4, and the

band marches in 3/4. and the world plays in 4/4. and the world plays in 4/4. and the

world plays in reverse. and

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