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Band: Waxwing
Song: Intervention
Album: Intervention: Collection+Remix
Label: Second Nature Recordings (2001)
discogs.com/Waxwing-Intervention-CollectionRemix/release/2597423
This Waxwing endeavor is a series of snapshots from their past. Intervention: Collection+Remix is comprised of previously released Waxwing gems, unreleased live tracks, covers and a lone remix. The five previously released songs, taken from vinyl and compilation appearances, showcase Waxwing at their most propulsive and dynamic. While still as introspective and musically vivid as Waxwing's current work, drawing from the folk, Americana, indie and rock cannons, tracks such as "Kill The Messenger," the frantic and bombastic "Manicotti" and the languid, melancholic, then all out "Charmageddon" show just how explosive Waxwing can be. In contrast, "Intervention" and "Laboratory" are elegantly restrained soundscapes that build to heavier dynamics while retaining their beauty and contemplative nature, as always accompanied by Rocky Votolato's strained, weary vocals that occasionally crack yet never falter. The live tracks, "All My Prophets," the U2 cover "New Years Day," and "Laboratory," are all remarkable, coming across as more urgent, desperate and energetic in their translation. In contrast, the "Spanish Remix," by Logic Probe, is an electronic sprawl, punctuated by atmospheric keyboard washes, intrusive electronic drums and a scrap of Rocky's vocals, that sounds as far removed from Waxwing as possible. An unlisted and reckless live version of Prince's "When Doves Cry" fittingly ends Intervention, Waxwing's most eclectic yet, contradictorily, unabashed rock release to date.
Waxwing on MySpace and Facebook:
myspace.com/waxwing
facebook.com/waxwingseattle
Second Nature Recordings:
secondnaturerecordings.com
facebook.com/secondnaturerecordings
Lyrics:
Straight to my heart it went
Felt something like
Dirty black needle with memory inside
It opened my eyes
These visits I had no idea at the time
What it meant but she cleared it all up in my mind
These stories she told
I felt ancient fear
Of that man in our home
All the pieces fit together
This was only days before intervention
Sweet destructive winds came blew our lives
Away from this place
Strange way to be saved
By what twisted and mangled our home that day
It ran through every inch of me
Instant I saw
Through the eyes of this child
A boy who is no more
Who is now just a shade
Turned into what I am
I relive this moment
Death sat on the bed with us...
Band: Waxwing
Song: Intervention
Album: Intervention: Collection+Remix
Label: Second Nature Recordings (2001)
discogs.com/Waxwing-Intervention-CollectionRemix/release/2597423
This Waxwing endeavor is a series of snapshots from their past. Intervention: Collection+Remix is comprised of previously released Waxwing gems, unreleased live tracks, covers and a lone remix. The five previously released songs, taken from vinyl and compilation appearances, showcase Waxwing at their most propulsive and dynamic. While still as introspective and musically vivid as Waxwing's current work, drawing from the folk, Americana, indie and rock cannons, tracks such as "Kill The Messenger," the frantic and bombastic "Manicotti" and the languid, melancholic, then all out "Charmageddon" show just how explosive Waxwing can be. In contrast, "Intervention" and "Laboratory" are elegantly restrained soundscapes that build to heavier dynamics while retaining their beauty and contemplative nature, as always accompanied by Rocky Votolato's strained, weary vocals that occasionally crack yet never falter. The live tracks, "All My Prophets," the U2 cover "New Years Day," and "Laboratory," are all remarkable, coming across as more urgent, desperate and energetic in their translation. In contrast, the "Spanish Remix," by Logic Probe, is an electronic sprawl, punctuated by atmospheric keyboard washes, intrusive electronic drums and a scrap of Rocky's vocals, that sounds as far removed from Waxwing as possible. An unlisted and reckless live version of Prince's "When Doves Cry" fittingly ends Intervention, Waxwing's most eclectic yet, contradictorily, unabashed rock release to date.
Waxwing on MySpace and Facebook:
myspace.com/waxwing
facebook.com/waxwingseattle
Second Nature Recordings:
secondnaturerecordings.com
facebook.com/secondnaturerecordings
Lyrics:
Straight to my heart it went
Felt something like
Dirty black needle with memory inside
It opened my eyes
These visits I had no idea at the time
What it meant but she cleared it all up in my mind
These stories she told
I felt ancient fear
Of that man in our home
All the pieces fit together
This was only days before intervention
Sweet destructive winds came blew our lives
Away from this place
Strange way to be saved
By what twisted and mangled our home that day
It ran through every inch of me
Instant I saw
Through the eyes of this child
A boy who is no more
Who is now just a shade
Turned into what I am
I relive this moment
Death sat on the bed with us...
