All the longing may get under your skin by the end of the album, but lines like, "I miss the sound of your voice / And I miss the rush of your skin", are too starry-eyed to hate on. The sparse acoustic ballad "Bulletproof Weeks" is one of the few times on the album where it is clear just how melancholy the lyrics are, with only an acoustic guitar and piano backing the despondent tale of a break-up. It would be easy to write-off Nathanson as some lame lovesick sap if he did not make it all sound so good. The gorgeous guitar-pop tune eventually reveals Nathanson battling apathy rather than an ex's ghost in the hook, "I wanna feel the car crash / Because I'm dying on the inside". The soaring line, "I'm wide awake and so alive", that flies above a bundle of chiming riffs to open the album on "Car Crash" attempts to trick listeners into believing that the album will be a cheery affair. ![]() ![]() He strikes a solid balance between the two this time around, for his most consistently pleasing album to date. Playing the songs swelled up with a full band, a la Beneath These Fireworks, and his songs gets a bit too overblown and glossy, losing the raw emotion that makes his songs sparkle. Play them in the tender sparse acoustic fashion of his fantastic live album, Live At The Point, and he risks naked exposing just how lonely the album is. ![]() Nathanson has a bit of a conundrum regarding his songs.
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