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1. Things That Hide Away
2. The Canopy
3. Crow And Cackle
4. The Inheritance
| Ranking: #109 for 2011 | |
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On 15 Lists
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| Summary: I never know just when and where to stop |
8 of 8 thought this review was well written
We have a delightful word for plants in the English language called “greenery”. There’s no other colour that gets to be a blanket-term for any entire group of organisms. Can you imagine? I mean, I guess an “orangery” could be the fruitier cousin of the modern winery but even that’s pushing it. Unlike other colours, green gets to represent every shrub, leaf and delicious bowl of broccoli soup we encounter. It doesn’t stop there though: what about “going green”, having a “green thumb” and the Parti vert du Canada? It’s kind of a natural, albeit cliche, choice to have Green be the woodsy, folksy, strip-down-to-your-skivvies and buy-a grass-skirt-by-the-campfire EP with all this flowery environmentalist tripe clinging to the very mention of the colour. But can you blame The Dear Hunter? Can you really get upset at the inclusion to include harmonicas, mandolins, steel guitars and an army of strings? No, you really can’t. Especially when they pull off being “green” so maddeningly well.
And it makes you wonder why it took them so long to invest in a mandolin. Green doesn’t choose a pace or tempo to plod along at nor does it have one uniform sound but it’s all loosely tied around that same earthy vibe. The psychedelic ‘Crow and Cackle’ is just a few genetic differences from being The Decemberists’ ‘Hazards of Love 4 (The Drowned)’ with its lethargic 6/4 plod and its lazy slide guitar parts, ‘Things That Hide Away’ is simply a grown-up version of Act II’s ‘Black Sandy Beaches’ and upbeat ‘The Canopy’ may just be the band’s most heartfelt and genuinely untroubled-sounding song. But once again, it’s Crescenzo’s transparency as a writer with emotions we never knew he had that helps Green succeed. He asks the same simple question we all ask with “why do we live, why do we die? Maybe we’re just never meant to know” and while he might ask “why?” a time too many, there’s something in that sincerity of his that makes it hard not to empathise. And empathise we do when he heartbrokenly bleats “you’re only just saying what I wanted you to say” on ‘Crow and Cackle’. With Crescenzo’s multi-faceted concept story outside of the picture, he once again gets an opportunity to write from the heart and there’s something perfect about the organic, ziploc-bag-o-dirt appeal of Green that gives it such a heartfelt aura. And while Blue brings Crescenzo to an emotional climax, Green is, in more than one punny way, a down-to-earth Casey we’ve never yet met.
Oh, and lest we forget: ‘The Inheritance’ is probably Crescenzo's sexiest vocal performance ever.
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the summary is actually a confession
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"Inheritance" is one of my top 5 songs across the spectrum
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probably my second favourite ep, cool review
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i really love the inheritance. i agree acad
thanks hbfs
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least fav ep right here
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my favorite with violet
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i want to listen to all of thses sooooooooo bad now. thats m,y goal for today
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Your skills with the pen make me go green with envy.
(har har har I'm soooo farnee)
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"There’s no other colour that gets to be a blanket-term for any entire group of organisms."
plants?
But I get what you were saying, don't worry 
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really good review caleb, nice and succinct. this is one of my favourites in the collection, which makes sense I guess cause green is obviously the best colour.
p-p-p-p-p-p-pos
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ace review
will listen soon
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Very good review Waior, pos. I didn't like this when I was into the Color Spectrum too much, but perhaps bc of you Ill give it another chance.
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Nice review, agreed The Inheritance is great.
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Great write-up Caleb.
But you omitted one thing in that big green paragraph that I feel is important to include, as it surely outweighs all those others in importance:
Green is iFghtffyrdmns's second favorite color.
Alright cool thanks make that change and we're all good buddy
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Please review Yellow. That is all.
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i thought this was your least favorite caleb? or is that yellow
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i think it is my least favourite, but it still grew on me
then again 'least favourite' is still a favourite eh?
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true, true
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