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"Giving each other some hard lessons
lately, we ain't learning. Same sad story, that's a fact." Far from this
somber, dark Springsteen classic, yet still hitting the nail on the head in
truth in learning through their craft, Spring, Texas' MERYLL strike a
similar deep cord in emotion within their rich, soul sustaining 'You've got
cousins.'
"Inside on a day like today" opens this vast landscape forged by Kyle (guitar), Andrew (vocals, guitar), Alex (keys) and Art (drums, bass), marching unhurriedly in its simple, yet rich elegant cadence. You'll find it on repeat mode surely. '15575' transitions in its organic repeated desires that breaths perfectly in its reverberating chorus as "Stopping my signs" trudges determinedly amidst spiraling guitars wrapped in cascading keys. Like the imagery evoked from its title, "Dotted lines" stop-starts in its pulsing acoustics, finding liberation both in its chorus and its tick-tock break that builds in anticipation, begging you to assist Art in crashing those cymbals that make its symmetry complete. "Classy" runs effortlessly as your mind does when road-tripping alone at night, imbibing all that you experience while "To touch/ You've got cousins" baths in its haunting shimmering beauty with a transition that'll propel you into your liberating subconscious. "Leave me hate notes" bounces about happily that your head will find itself swaying with fists about. Twists and turns abound in "Bright" as "Every stoplight" has you whistling to Alex's keys. "Window seat (Kennedale version) is the dream you have before taking off on that night flight to wherever. "Willamette industries" flexes in its skipping rhythm and vocal assurance as "Governors at sea" closes your latest crystallizing chapter of self-discovery, awash in its
reviewed by michael
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