I ordered Dana Falconberry and Medicine Bow's From the Forest Came the Fire (2016) because I had heard two of the songs ("Cormorant" and "Powerlines") and they were very good.
I have played "Alamogordo" forty-seven times since the CD arrived. It is the closing track and the source of the album's title and it is very difficult for me not to think of it as the song I would have written "The Trinitite Golem" to if it had existed in the spring of 2014. See lines like the subject header of this post. There is language of forests in the song, but also of deserts and fire: "Oh, Alamogordo, I saw the brightest light . . . I can be still under your sky turquoise / Wait for a call to fit the fire, some elemental noise . . . If my blood brayed, bellowed and bared / And if it boiled in a heartbeat, I would not be scared." That's forty-eight times now. The rest of the album is very fine, with a delicately electronic folk-rock sound and intricate lyrics, but for this song alone, I'm glad to own it.
And I will keep a steady eye
Fierce-set upon your fevered sky
When if a light should break
Oh, my mended heart won't quake
I have played "Alamogordo" forty-seven times since the CD arrived. It is the closing track and the source of the album's title and it is very difficult for me not to think of it as the song I would have written "The Trinitite Golem" to if it had existed in the spring of 2014. See lines like the subject header of this post. There is language of forests in the song, but also of deserts and fire: "Oh, Alamogordo, I saw the brightest light . . . I can be still under your sky turquoise / Wait for a call to fit the fire, some elemental noise . . . If my blood brayed, bellowed and bared / And if it boiled in a heartbeat, I would not be scared." That's forty-eight times now. The rest of the album is very fine, with a delicately electronic folk-rock sound and intricate lyrics, but for this song alone, I'm glad to own it.
And I will keep a steady eye
Fierce-set upon your fevered sky
When if a light should break
Oh, my mended heart won't quake
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