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"About a 1,000 years ago you left / I felt nothing for centuries / I was lost"I probably wasted about 40 minutes of my life trying to find traces of Sleater-Kinney in this record rather than appreciating the songs on this record as what they are: incredibly well-written, layered and beautiful. Corin Tucker's voice is still one of the most magnificent instruments, even though it feels more controlled here - with the exception of Doubt, where the voice is occasionally allowed to run free and the guitars set a quick pace, until there is an unexpected break, a short respite before the song finishes explosively.
1,000 years
There isn't a single weak song on this record. This isn't settling down, this is enjoying the fruits of a long and laborious process of development, of tuning musical abilities to perfection and still having the ability to create something new and compelling.
It's not hard at all to immediately fall for Junior. The Betrayer already contains everything that makes this album great - a soft beginning, compelling mysterious lyrics about what seems to be a spy thriller, and then, a different, quicker pace. "I am the guardian / I am the only who knows / [...] it's up to me if I live or die". Death Head is the culmination of everything that makes Junior different from the previous Kaki King records - an unrelenting anthem that will, if you let it, stay with you forever. "Tell me if the damage here will last forever" - and then the high point of the record, Falling Day. I've listened to this record incessantly after it came out in the beginning of the year, never really knowing what to say exactly to convey this incredible sense urgency that comes from this record, until the final sad little love song that contains everything that makes a break-up terrible (and is almost as good as her cooperation with John Darnielle on Mosquito Repellent). "Good luck finding someone who can love you better than I."
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