Manafonistas

 
„The Sober Scent of Paper“ is a hair-raising, elegiac waltz informed somewhat unconsciously by the demise of Sylvia Plath: „When I began writing“, says Nick, „I didn’t know what it was going to be about. For some reason, the first line Chains dredge the great lake around you / Pull you along by the knots in your hair made me think of her.
I guess it´s quite a dark desolate image“. Yet there´s light to this shade, with Tearing The Arches Down marrying a wryly observed narrative The boy with the bloodshot eyes / A legend in your lunchtime to an ebullient chant.
 
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I know this place. I’ve been here, in one of these white buildings, some hours ago. In fact, i’m living now nearby, in a very small and very simple white house. No phone, but an old TV with a remote control from the days of Elvis Presley. Flickering pictures, spanish language distorted, lonely dogs barking after midnight. So, this will be my strange home for the last part of this journey … the new record of L. Pierre is the music most played, at times this is very surreal. An island come true! The hinterland lives.