Recently, one of the kids almost everyone on the floor had taken a shining to died one morning, at the beginning of my shift. It's a pretty large, pretty reputable transplant hospital, so a lot of the kids on our floor are recent transplants, making them constantly returning visitors. See, as I'm going to school for a Nursing degree, I am also working in the pediatric intensive care unit at a local hospital. I've been going for long walks a few times a week, trying to get back in shape, and on several of those walks, I put that song on Repeat for at least 20 to 30 minutes at a time.Īnother song on the record, which I believe is titled "The General Specific" but won't really know until tomorrow (the leaked version of the album had one or two song title swaps), has had a pretty profound effect on me in recent weeks. My favorite song on the record, and possibly my favorite song of 2007, is the charging "Islands on the Coast." I'm not exaggerating here: I've listened to nothing but this song for a few days on end.
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I can't stop listening to it, to the point that it's getting ridiculous. I have to be honest: I've had the album, which leaked on the internet, for months now. Where Doug Martsch and company have drifted into caring a little too much about noodling guitars, Band of Horses have streamlined their songwriting on this record, delivering a number of poppier songs that clock in at around the 3-minute mark. One thing is for sure: produced by Phil Ek, Cease to Begin might be the best Built to Spill album the band has failed to release in the last 6 (or more) years. This complaint seems a little silly, considering this record is about 56 seconds shorter. One of the more hilarious complaints is that this album is too short. Some consider it a real dropping off from the first record, while folks like me think it might just be even better than Horses' debut.
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This new record has been the source of some debate, especially online. That band's debut, Everything All of the Time, was an instant classic, lauded by a number of critics. There are a number of decent releases (the online release of the new Radiohead, for one!) slated to come out tomorrow, October 9th, but the one I'm most excited about is the sophomore release from Seattle's BAND OF HORSES, entitled Cease to Begin.