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No Little Kindness
by Dan
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No Little Kindness - "Cast Off Your Troubles" No Little Kindness bring a slow build, they build a song the way a boat builds a wake. A beautiful spreading path of their trajectory, at once a mess and a swirling cloud of colours, choirs, comas. That thud-thud-thud I like to imagine is a diving board, rattling from someone jumping off. One every second. No Little Kindness - "Shall Not Be Moved" And here, a better song for walking in a group down a dirt road at midday I have not heard. The tambourine kicks up a dust that is blown quickly away by the wind of the voices, and they both soon snowball into a storm. The heat of the sun like a lead blanket, and the white white white church to the side, it's just the statement "shall not be moved" with no subject that I like. It starts with "I shall not be moved", but by the end it's just the predicate shouted with so much energy the meaning is unnecessary. [MySpace] Posted by Dan at September 7, 2007 7:42 PMComments
it's good, just your introduction paragraphs to the songs sound more like a plea for word-masturbation. great band. Posted by c1356 at September 8, 2007 1:46 PMi disagree, i think the words match the songs perfectly (simple.beautiful.) Posted by nuh-uh! at September 8, 2007 4:50 PMTorn. Didn't like some of the words and I liked the music enough to forget about it. Disagree that either the music or words are simple. "Trajectory", for example, seems like a awkward word choice to use in describing that song. Boating metaphor is clever but can't sail under weight of a patched on diving board. Neither "lead blanket", "white white white", or "predicate" feel natural to me. Could have been stronger because the dirt road story is a good fit and has lot of potential. The music feels very natural. Thanks for the introduction. Posted by Delivery at September 8, 2007 9:39 PMPost a comment |
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Sean Michaels lives in Montreal, where he is writing a novel. His work also occasionally appears at McSweeney's. Follow him on Twitter or reach him here.
Dan Beirne is an actor and writer living in Toronto. He writes fiction fiction fiction on here. It may feel true, but it is never True. He is most proud of his most recent project The Bitter End. Email him here Jordan Himelfarb lives in Toronto. He is an opinion editor at the Toronto Star. Jordan's posts appear at Said the Gramophone only on the last Wednesday of every month. Email him here. Site design and header typography by Neale McDavitt-Van Fleet. The header graphic is randomized: this one is by . 
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