What? The bass in Jigsaw is glorious! One of my favorites on IR
You know what I listened to IR on vinyl recently and it stood out more as the final reserve of energy before Videotape because the first half of the album floors me, I'm beginning to accept Faust Arp as a studio song with a string section AND its place on the album (as long as I never have to subject myself to the scotch mist video again), Reckoner heads up the second half in terms of quality, and then there's House of Cards, which is perfectly enjoyable but as the longest song at five and a half minutes on an album of songs otherwise succinct AND varied, it leaves a long stretch a little too thin and when the IR discbox came with the second disc and it has Down Is The New Up and Go Slowly and really I'm thinkin, why couldn't Go Slowly just have replaced House of Cards, that would have been a gorgeous close. And then there's a part of me that still thinks Go Slowly should replace Faust Arp and Down Is The New Up should replace House of Cards and maybe swap places with Jigsaw.
But House of Cards goes by and then there's that bass, it's way up front along with the drums on vinyl...and it totally saves the album's energy, reminds me Colin is my favorite member, and he...in a way preserves the Open Pick freeness of it, funking all over the scale and occasionally dropping directly behind Thom's vocal line as if he were mocking Thom right behind his back. He's certainly having a ball here, he even moves all over the chorus like a madman.
And THEN I see your post again and I'm like, god damn mother ****er was right the whole time.
For this, the song gets a
+.5
FROM NOW UNTIL I DEEM OTHERWISE
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