"Wildlife" CD

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La Dispute's "Wildlife," the follow-up to their 2008 LP "Somewhere At The Bottom Of The River Between Vega And Altair," is a nearly 60-minute musical examination of the twentysomet hing search for purpose; an exploration of the struggles that confront, damage and redefine us inevitably in life through 14 tracks of new material. Set up as a collection of unpublished "short stories" complete with the author's notes and sectioned thematically by four monologues, "Wildlife" discusses the difficulties inherent in growing up by interweaving the author's own ambiguous loss and struggle for meaning alongside the stories it compelled him to document. Accordingly, each song musically captures both the moods and tones of those stories as well as the more subtle personal narrative throughout the entire record through a heavy reliance on dynamics and alternative instrumentation, allowing for a diversity that shows nearly every spot on the spectrum while never sounding out of place, forced or unfamiliar. Track Listing:1. a Departure2. Harder Harmonies3. St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church Blues4. Edit Your Hometown5. a Letter6. Safer in the Forest/Love Song for Poor Michigan7. The Most Beautiful Bitter Fruit8. a Poem9. King Park10. Edward Benz, 27 Times11. I See Everything12. a Broken Jar13. all our bruised bodies and the whole heart shrinks14. You and I in Unison Show more