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Sweet Talk
Artist: Spiritualized
Album: Songs in A&E
Year: 2008
A work friend turned me onto this album from last year. It was his description that intrigued me:
“‘Songs in A&E’ does not refer to the keys of the songs themselves; rather, Jason Pierce (the man behind the band) nearly died several years ago, and this album is about his time in the accident and emergency ward of the hospital. These songs about life and death take on new meaning in that context.”
Certainly “Death Take Your Fiddle”, with a ventilator serving as the backing, is plenty haunting once you learn the background of the album. This track, all gradual build and swelling crescendos, serves as a nice counterpart to the raucous-to-quiet structure of the last track.
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