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Thursday, February 10, 2011
Tales To Tell: Cold War Kids - Mine Is Yours
Few albums contrast the hardships and rewards of love with such realism and honesty as does CWK's new full length. Not even overlooking petty squabbles, the album is a manic venture into the narrative world of love we all at some point live in. A significant slice of the album is lyrically rich with stories that brilliantly display the coarse juxtaposing of dependence against annoyance and the ascension of forgiveness present in every over-emphasised lovers' quarrel.
But all this abundance of narrative is really only the extra credit the album deserves. It's back bone lies in the return to the Kids' ability to string together a mess of noise into a dramatic melody the way they did with Robbers & Cowards. Don't expect the ground down production that made their first full length so interesting but as far as achieving an original sound with a solid rhythm goes it's a stellar return to form.
The storytelling on the album does of course wander further than relationship troubles giving it a nice amount of variety while maintaining a solid theme. It illustrates a story about making the intrepid resolve through trouble on the foundation of love. It's honestly refreshing.
As Frightened Rabbit progressed from their miserably magnificent Midnight Organ Fight to a slightly more affirmative outlook on Winter of Mixed Drinks, so to have Cold War Kids. Where previously the Kids' storytelling so emphatically wallowed in defeat and self-deception, audience's now hear of a nowhere near optimistic but sweet and truthful almost-recovery.
After indulging in the album listeners will conceive and welcome with appeased ears a new and unfamiliar message in the Kids' music. "Maybe things aren't perfect, but together they'll get better."
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