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Current mood:  cheerful
So, who is Kellen Perry? That's a good question. We also didn't know wh he was until he was kind enough to review our song Ficus. At this point all I can tell you is that he writes very interesting reviews (that statement is based on reading his other reviews, I promise!), wears glasses, and writes a music review blog. The latter was a bit redundant, I know, since it's already pretty obvious. Well, enough jibber jabber, and onto the review.
You can access the full bolg entry (and it might help since he makes references to earlier portions of the entry when reviewing us) or you can just read the portion about us:
"St. Joseph, MO's mainly instrumental Sylvan Lane sound a little like American Football and a lot like Owen (Mike Kinsella's current project). In "Ficus," Brandon Bone and David Hawk sing something about fissures and wakes and pressure, and it's all vague and pretty and it really works, breaking up the twinkly monotony. It's almost overwhelmingly tasteful, but, like Kinsella's projects and a lot of the Jim O'Rourke-influenced post-rock stuff coming out of Chicago in the past decade or so, it's tempered with this genuine melancholy that keeps it from sounding like the score to some Pilates workout video." - Kellen Perry, TWPOT, Oct. '07
After reading the entry, we felt in necessary to let Kellen know what the lyrics of Ficus are about. And for those of you who don't know, and that's probably all of you, they are about plate tectonics. It's a somewhat unusual and elusive way to talk about it, but that's what we're singing about. When we wrote to kellen and told him what the song's about, he had this to say:
"Honestly, you guys could just recite the names of Negro League outfielders over and over and it'd be lovely."
Many thanks to kellen for the nice review and I encourage everyone to stop by and read his reviews. All of them! You just might find some new music to enjoy.
8:03 PM
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