Dear Jesus. If I’m good, I’d like to reincarnate as a Jimmy Eat World guitar case. That would be amazing.
The same part of me that digs American alt-rock also digs Anberlin. Their new album is on the way, and fingers crossed I might be interviewing them in a week or two. Obviously if that happens, then it’ll be here. For now, video for their new single Impossible, and thunk-words.
Enthusiastic. This video’s a little try-hard and unsubtle in it’s aesthetic, enough so that I can’t really watch it more than once. But ignore that.
Yeah, enthusiastic is the word you hear in accounts of them. It’s sugar-rush guitar pop. Not bad break-up song material, in that way that something will be cathartic at the right time. Although a frequently unsung benefit (you’ll see the pun at the end of this sentence) is that they give rise to hours of hilarity watching overweight teenage shut-ins cover things like ‘Adelaide’ on Youtube.
If you have the vicious streak to let you find that amusing, in any case.
But they do other good songs.
If you like the guys vocals (I’m meh), follow up with his acoustic side project Anchor & Braille. Who are still on a to-listen list right now, but that’s the joy of a ‘if you like this then you’ll like this’ recommendation – it’s really just more of the same.
(Also, there are terrible YouTube videos made to go with songs. LOL.)
