1. Album Review: Good Old War - Come Back As Rain

    Good Old War’s third effort –Come Back As Rain, is a vast melodic and harmonious indie-folk soundscape. The boys in Good Old War have a gift for keeping their songs minimalistic and simple yet still dense and exciting. Their mellifluous three-part harmonies and sweetly finger picked guitar lines paint the ‘driving out to your cabin in the countryside’ aesthetic for Come Back As Rain. A large part of the beauty in this album is the dichotomy they have created between their up-beat sweet folk-pop hooks and their lyrical tales of woe and heartbreak.  “Over and Over” opens the album strong and accentuates all of these crucial elements. Right off the bat you’re greeted with, “this is the last time/this time I know I’m done/I have a purpose/that’s what I tell myself.” Putting to front the central themes of the album. A relationship turned bitter and trying to find your purpose in the aftermath. However, just as much as they sing about heartbreak, they line the album with a sense of hope such as in “Better Weather.”Good Old War reportedly recorded 30 songs during their time in the studio -with producer and engineer Jason Cupp, before taking the 11 tracks they felt were the cream of the crop. As impressive a feat as that is in of itself, I also feel that hurt the album the most. Lyrically it flows beautifully from song to song telling a tale that comes full circle in the last track –“Present For the End of the World”,but I feel as though the album has trouble standing as a whole. Every song works well individually but listening front to back, it feels jagged and more akin to a ‘Best Of’ collection than it does to a single collective of tracks composed for a single album. Regardless, Come Back As Rain is a wonderful masterpiece reminiscent to the likes of Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young and is sure to place Good Old War amongst the top players in the new wave of folk such as Mumford and Sons, The Civil Wars, and Fleet Foxes.

    Stand out tracks: Over and Over, Calling Me Names, Better Weather, Not Quite Happiness, and Present For the End of the World.

    2. Apr 30, 2012

  2. Dustin Kensrue - Sigh No More (Mumford and Sons cover)

    3. Apr 9, 2012

  3. Noah And The Whale - 5 Years Time

    “I’m always pretty happy when I’m just kicking back with you.”

    4. source: SoundCloud / CAFFE' SANT'AGATA - BS

    Mar 2, 2012

  4. Thrice

    track: The Messenger

    album: The Alchemy Index, Vol. I: Fire

    Thrice - The Messenger

    The song that started getting me into Thrice. This summer I will be traveling over 2500 miles cross country, to witness and take part in their farewell celebration in LA.
    This will be a summer to remember. 

    5. Mar 1, 2012

  5. Sufjan Stevens - Chicago

    “I made a lot of mistakes. In my mind, in my mind.”

    6. source: SoundCloud / tadpolemusic

    Feb 28, 2012

  6. Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeros - Home

    “Home is wherever I’m with you.”

    7. source: SoundCloud / EdwardSharpe

    Feb 27, 2012

  7. Copeland - I’m Safer On An Airplane

    “I think I’m safer on an airplane
    I think I’m safer in the sky up above
    I think I’m safer on the jetway
    Than a world without Love” 

    8. source: SoundCloud / copelandband

    Feb 25, 2012

  8. Thrice - Daedalus

    “Oh God, why is this happening to me?”

    9. source: SoundCloud / kristoffer81

    Feb 24, 2012

  9. Foals - Miami

    “Would you be there for me?
    Would you betray me or save me from you?” 

    10. source: SoundCloud / Electric Audio

    Feb 21, 2012

  10. Album Art

    Death Cab For Cutie

    track: I Will Follow You Into The Dark

    album: Plans

    Death Cab For Cutie - I Will Follow You Into The Dark

    “If there’s no one beside you when you soul embarks
    Then I’ll follow you into the dark.” 

    11. Feb 20, 2012

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