Het album Hospice heeft mij nog compleet in de ban. Geweldig album vol nummers die ergens over gaan. Onderwerp van alle nummers is zwaar: vriendin heeft kanker en er moet afscheid genomen worden. Het levert een zeer persoonlijk album op. Oprecht. Muziek is er voor alle momenten. Album zweeft tussen de breekbaarheid van Antony en het geniale gefreak van Radiohead in.
There's a bear inside your stomach.
The cub's been kicking from within.
He's loud, though without vocal chords
We'll put an end to him.
We'll make all the right appointments.
No one ever has to know.
And then tommorow I'll turn 21.
We'll script another show.
We'll play charades up in the Chelsea.
Drink champagne although you shouldn't be.
We'll be blind and dumb until we fall asleep.
None of our friends will come.
They dodge our calls.
And they have for quite awhile now.
It's not a shock.
You don't seem to mind and I just can't see how.
The album Hospice is by all means great. Singing and writing about the effect of cancer in your relationship makes this album very very personal. Heartbreaking.
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Dit (briljante) nummer gaat eerder over abortus dan kanker lijkt me?
ReplyDeleteHaal eruit wat je erin ziet. Da's het mooie van muziek. Maar ik denk dat de beeldtaal over een tumor gaat. De zanger van de band:
ReplyDelete“Hospice came from the idea of caring for a terminal patient who’s mentally abusive to you,” says Silberman. “You don’t have the right to argue with them, either, because they’re the one who’s dying here; they’re the one that’s been dealt a wrong hand. So you take it, but you can only take so much. Eventually, you realize that this person is just destroying you.”