mp3: See In You

Dear The Album Leaf,

Just thought I would catch up with you before I see you in a few days. Lately, I have been in the thralls of studying for my comprehensive exams and let me just tell you — your music fits perfectly into a regimine of trying to figure out the uses and gratifications approach to media consumption. Aslo, on your latest album, Into the Blue Again, you have somewhat come up with the musical representation of all of my brain activity: the programmed beats of my synapses firing, the moogish swells of my unborn thoughts. This coinciding of music and physiology, however, ultimately has me a little confused. I kind of hate studying (but deep down I love it) and I listen to your music while studying — does that make me hate your music? Well, at least it’s good that I chose you above Handel’s Water Music or recorded whale calls

I also acknowledge you for having the guts to lay down your own vocals on a couple of these tracks. At first, when listening to “All for you” it wasn’t a pretty sight. But then I have flashbacks to the time that I tried to lay down my own recorded vocals for a song, and let me just tell you, keep on doing what you are doing — you are much better than I.

Ultimately, Into the Blue Again is filled with way too much bombast. It is self-indulgent — a soundtrack for the most ambitious movie ever made. And let me tell you, I can’t wait to see you play it live.

Peace,

Rob

the album leaf dot com