If you've ever wondered what a heavy emotive band would sound like acoustic, then I've got a real treat for you.
The New & Very Welcome just released a 3-song covers album of
The Saddest Landscape. If you never heard of The Saddest Landscape or The New & Very Welcome, then you will soon know what it's like for a musician to wear their heart on their sleeve, or in their music, I guess you can say. When you listen to Jessica sing these songs, they are somehow just as grippingly emotional as when Andy from The Saddest Landscape screams them--because the words are the same exposed, poetic bittersweet beauty telling love. The TNVW achieves a sense of rawness through holding notes and in some instances screaming herself toward the end of "A Statute of A Girl," for instance. She brings the songs down in a way that allows you to really hear the words coming to life. Listening through I think, shit, The Saddest Landscape's lyrics are beautiful--something that might be overshadowed by heavy instrumentation of their music.
You can listen to these acoustic interpretations over at Pure Volume--that's right good 'ol PV--cause you know how MySpace has gone to shit. The release,
Bouquet of Traffic Lights, is out and available on 7'' white vinyl with a gatefold cover and limited to 300 copies. Nerd alert. I'm excited to get this one in my collection soon.
Have a look at the lyrics for "The Temptation That Is You":
I just want you to stick around long enough to realize that I'm worth all of the trouble I cause because I'm sure that I will fuck this all up somehow so don't let me getaway
Flesh to flesh, heart to heart I will never let this go
I swear that I would love you forever
How amazing is that? If someone ever felt like that toward me, then
life would probably be complete.
Side A
1. We Wanted The Sky
2. A Statue Of A Girl (May 15th)
Side B
1. The Temptation That Is You
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