Review Summary: No joy in my life when I’m right – the prose of hyperaffective modern life
Another summer without you. I finally got how hard I must look up to something after my world went down. I will never slow down I would never burn out, because I am the part of this twisted equation. I can’t be late, even if I’m stay awake forever. This isn’t be the last time.
I was interested in high notes and then swim with the pendulum of Spanish love songs. Initially Brave Faces Everyone caught my attention with sound and momentary notes of vocalist’s tone color and metaphysical or melodramatics lyrics. Unfortunately, after longest communion with it I picked exhaustion of the material and one-linear on earlier mentioned play. So, I was highly devastated from overall reception of their last release. How this had too high notes, and a few of us (or only I) only saw the weaknesses? I didn’t take the effort from lyricist or eminently developed texts, but in the compositions way it was simple and common. Just in time circumstances marched in line, moreover on the horizon were upcoming another release. Their new beautiful addon to discography of Spanish Love Songs called No Joy. That record, to me, is even better. I feel joy, irony, felt meant nuances and hipsters’ goods. These beard men delivered now, for real.
No Joy is asking damn very important question about mental condition of society. When I was a kid, then teen I was thinking and dreaming that everything will be alright and in its right place. It wasn’t like that; it was harder in every possible way. I always gave more than I can or supposed to, maybe that was the main fault “Do not care like every decision would ruin your life”. Dreams of future beautiful wife, loving family or even good shape and form stays in my mind, accidents happen deliberately. Millions of people are struggling with heaviness of mental nature and that’s ok, but only if you have a bad day or a couple of them, but not if its longing and stays with you for (ever). Better safe than sorry, and if you know symptoms earlier you could look for help on this ongoing bombast. Will this record be another game changer under the sing of new view like it was in my case with After the Party by The Menzingers. We will see in another few months, but like always I am and will be in positive thought. Just now, I eagerly waiting for our new united relation.
Not everyone has written things that he has wanted, but why not appropriate people don’t have things that they are born for? In example I will talk about parentship, where you should have love and approach to kids. It isn’t that simple, but I believe you know what I am talking about. I’m not sure, why so many lines are strangely colliding with each other’s and I wanna know if I’m ever find my peace and happiness, longer than momentary starts in my silent friend subconscious. When I do not know what to do, I just smile in my mind. What is sure in this thesis except for taxes and death? Fact, by deeds we definitely do more, than with often empty words, and it’s up likely we would provoke some situations by our actions. It could help our unknown future.
The fourth full longplay is the journey into deep of yourself, thus my disquisitions from the past part. The moment of reflection about your faith and your moral codex. The pieces of album, songs I don’t like this term, but ok, are written like another story of the whole. I think the death was the biggest motivation to record this art. You can prove me wrong, but metaphysically it’s on another lever, on band’s emotions and mental actions. The death of brother was mentioned twice in No Joy. It’s taking a toll on lyrical layer, even it’s persuaded to take maximum from life against of everyday contrariety. These occasions are pendulum of your status quo. Hardly ever you will don’t know what is the plot of lyrics without looking in them, yet if you look at them it’s like multimedia theater spectacle with added background. Mostly we can only imagine it, while listening to other stuff. It’s the therapy for suffering and ultrasensitive of dailiness human beings.
This time Spanish Love Songs take a punt on sensitiveness of melodies and more clearer quarters for instrumental backgrounds in the songs. What stay in my memory after are not only screaming singing by Dylan, but also guitars and sound arrangements in compositions. Clean-Up Crew show brilliant funky intro off (for SLS is not that so obvious choice) is according to popular hits straight forward from ballrooms. How it shows far further from the topics that are taken its still wide space for cozy to our ears sounds. Witty and fabulous part is included on the Middle of Nine (it’s extremely intimate, bedding track). Groovy funky riffs welcome you in the single Marvel, and so on electronic lighting bugs wink in heavy stuffy from emotion atmosphere on Rapture Chaser. Personally, No Joy brings me a lot of joy, more than their highly rated predecessor. For me it’s because of changed frequency of experiences on this emotional rollercoaster. I didn’t notice unnecessary elongations, needless and strenuous overbearing the narration voice as well as absorbing every single track into similar tight unity. On both lyrical and instrumental levels its well portioned incarnate life lesson. You can take many clever sentences or notions to your everyday life. Lines are written with pure passion and love to music, art and another human being. Thanks to this I add No Joy to my holy emo-indie-rock-alternative trio of current years music, blast at any time next to with After the Party and The Million Masks of God, as a proof that No Joy is a very appropriate piece of art for my soul.
I throw my prayers into pocket and go try new things. Being learnt by life experience now I know, that’s when I don’t know what to do, I just smile and row further. I’ll help myself, but more important help you being thit positive model guy. I want sleep another summer away under the shadow of that Stronger. I need love and to be loved. I have full right to this beautiful act, like anyone else. I’m not hunted or invisible. I step off the ray of light. On the past I want disappear from it. Stop daydreaming, start living. I should learn by heart and bring it into effect my mortal coil.
