'How I long to be broken'

Something a bit more downbeat and emotional for you today. Again found on Purevolume these guys are an unusual band for me to listen to, and while i'm not sure i entirely like their music, there's this whole context thing going on which makes it listenable, if not memorable

THE GLORIOUS UNSEEN

Labelling themselves as 'Rock/Ambient/Indie' seems, for once, a perfect description of this band. You've got the power chords and bass heavy drumming, but it's all softened by deep, often droning lyrcis to create this kind of ambient quality. The music itself is pretty typical emotional rock - and no i'm not calling these guys 'emo' that's far too unkind and that label generally makes me angry anyway - with a lot of mention of love etc and a voice that seems to constantly be on the verge of tears. Kind of Jimmy Eat World meets The Fray. Was sets the music apart from other bands of the same genre though, is the inclusion of piano and strings, as well as the typical guitar/drum duo. This adds a lot more sense of ballard to a lot of the tracks and manages to switch my opinion from whiny angst to something a bit deeper. Still whiny; the lyrics in the title of this post for instance definately have that 'living is pointless' vibe, but in a more....classy way? Probably not the best choice of words but hopefully you'll see what I mean.


This is the point where again i explain the whole context thing i wrote in the intro to this post. This is not the type of music i'd listen to on a day to day basis - i generally go for something much more upbeat - but i do sometimes find myself thinking ah man, i wish i had some more downbeat music i can just stick on in the background and almost forget about. And this is it. Ok so maybe enjoying it for the fact that you can forget about it doesn't make sense. But in a way it's similar in that respect to Sigur Ros. That is the kind of music - because of the foreign lyrics, mostly - that you can put on as a backing track to whatever you're doing at the time. If i want to get absorbed into music, i'll listen to some Bat for Lashes or Mars Volta, but if i want to be absorbed in whatever i'm doing at the time, yet still want some back ground noise, this is really good for that. 
This type of music is also good, and i'm not being emo by saying this, for when you're not in the best of moods and when you just want to sit down and think about shit, because you certainly don't want something lively and/or extremely complex. And this music isn't either.


So again we have here a situational band that work in context, rather than in music taste. Obviously there'll be some people that hate them outright, but because of this 'ambience' they create, i find it really difficult not to listen to them and think 'this is actually kinda nice.'