Album Lounge: Be Still Please
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Be Still Please
Released: 2006 9 tracks
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Dear God, what a thing of beauty this song is. I've been freaking out in general about Portastatic's newest one for a few weeks now (since around the time we played together to a cavernous room in Greensboro, in fact), but this song has it all... ersatz Latin guitar plucking, a string arrangement that Van Dyke Parks would be envious of, guiros and finger snaps, and some Tweedy-esque guitar acrobatics. It's really a very strange song - the first few times I heard it I did... MORE
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I was in Wilmington, NC earlier this month visiting my sister, and had heard that a guy I knew was staying nearby at a beach house, so I pinged him. He invited me to dinner and one of the other people at the house was Mac McCaughan, of Merge Records/Superchunks/Portastatic. After a great group meal, we chatted (I was interested to hear that in his opinion lower prices on downloads would not really jack up online sales), and on the way home, I had two advance CD's to liste... MORE
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I was listening to this album at work yesterday and it wasn't until just now that I noticed the lyrics in part of the chorus are "you fuckers make that impossible to say". I have a job in the retail world where I'm constantly dealing with customers. haha.
Anywhoo...this album is one of my favs from this year. Mac just continues to make great album after great album.
