Музыка и песни Future Bible Heroes / Future Bible Heroes

Artist: Future Bible Heroes Label: Merge

FUTURE BIBLE HEROES are comprised of celebrated songwriter Stephin Merritt (THE MAGNETIC FIELDS, THE 6THS, THE GOTHIC ARCHIES), longtime friend and collaborator Christopher Ewen (FIGURES ON A BEACH, THE HIDDEN VARIABLE) and MAGNETIC FIELDS pianist-singer-manager Claudia Gonson. The band released two albums, "Memories of Love" (1997) and "Eternal Youth" (2002), and three EPs, all of which they are repackaging as one large collection for simultaneous release via Merge, along with their new album, "Partygoing". For vinyl, The EPs is digital-only content Record Label: Merge Style: Independent

Partygoing" features 13 quick and catchy songs, and Stephin Merritt and Gonson deliver their lines with vim and vigor, particularly on "How Very Strange" a mean-spirited look back at the implausibility of a relationship, batting lines back and forth-it could be a sequel to the MAGNETIC FIELDS' "Yeah! Oh, Yeah!" (sample lyric: "I put a little heroin / In everything you took in"). Another top track is "Drink Nothing But Champagne," in which Merritt gives his best impressions of David Bowie and Aleister Crowley, as he sings, "Children, drink nothing but champagne / It makes life shorter / Than drinking water" (and water's mostly piss!). Merritt's ode to double suicide, "Let's Go to Sleep (And Never Come Back)," makes it sound like an adventure, while "Keep Your Children in a Coma" offers these words of wisdom: "You can't let them go to school / For fear of bullying little beasts / And you can't take them to church / For fear of priests." His lyrics veer into territories few have the audacity to touch. There are fewer zombies and aliens on "Partygoing" than on the prior two albums, though there are plenty of songs about aging, death, heartbreak, rejection and austerity Record Label: Merge Style: Independent