Originally Posted by sweet_nothing

Turn on the Bright Lights is an album I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of, its also one of the few I can listen straight through without skipping any tracks. Built on a post punk sound similar to Joy Division (especially in the vocals) with mainly simple dueling guitars, throbbing bass, and a snare heavy mix. From the reverbing guitars on the very first track you know that this will be an album you’ll want to listen to again. Though this albums sound isn’t really anything new or original it still manages to pull it off so damn well.
The lyrics are pretty vague and almost abstract not giving a clear explanation of what is going on in the songs. Some say that there are specific meaning told through metaphors and symbolism to songs such as Stella was a Diver and She was Always Down (which is believed to be about a prostitute) “At the bottom of the ocean she dwells, from crevices caressed by fingers and fat blue serpent swells”. But the lyrics in most of the songs could be the best part of the tracks themselves, I’ll never forget how amazed I was the first time I heard the closing track Leif Erickson, Paul’s word were so beautiful and touching yet at the sometime so detached with lines like “Her rabid glow is like braille to the night” or “I'll bring you when my lifeboat sails through the night that is supposing you don't sleep tonight”. If Leif Erickson isn’t my favorite track then PDA surely is with its pounding drums and dueling guitars, and the guitar solo/outro, it is defiantly something that needs to be heard. Ive heard that it could be about date rape, and it seems plausible with lines like “But you're so cute when you're frustrated, dear, yeah, you're so cute when you're sedated, oh dear” or “You are a past dinner, the last winner, I'm raping all around me until the last drop is behind you”. But regardless of what its about its still a ****ing great track. Though the first time I heard this album I liked it but not nearly as much as I do now. It wasn’t until I played PDA on Rock Band 2 I thought “wow this is a really great song, I need to listen to that album again” and now its one of my favorite albums ever. Its post punk with catchy chorus’s what’s not to love? Also I dare you not like a band that dresses so well.


PDA (though missing the guitar outro)

^^Feed your ears this

Leif Erikson

Feed your heart this^^