The World Is a Beautiful Place I Am No Longer Afraid to Die Twitter Beef
The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die
"For Robin"
Always Foreign
Epitaph
On "Perfect Places", taken from her outstanding sophomore album, Lorde voices her concern. "All of our heroes are fading," she sings in chorus, feeling anxious over the death of the modern heroes that perturbs and confuses her. But, it's not only her who feels anxious. Other people feel the same thing as well. The year 2017 may be remembered as the bleakest year in music scene, where a lot of songs revolve around the death of dear friend, a hero for the musicians. The whole Mount Eerie's album is filled with somber and catatonic tunes written by Phil Elverum for his late-wife. On Sorority Noise's "No Halo", Boucher wails the death of his friend whose funeral he couldn't attend.
As the hero of modern emo-revival, alongside The Hotelier and Modern Baseball, it's no surprise that TWIABP grieve on their latest album. But,Always Foreign, their third album seems different than their predecessors.Always Foreign feels more grandeur, despite their dwindling band members, and is filled with sense of urgency where David Bello voices his concern over the current political situation that happens in USA. He may not mention the bad guy behind all the bad things that happen there (also known as Trump), but he insinuates his name everywhere. "There's nothing wrong with kindness," Bello argues on "Marine Tigers". The title of the song is taken from the same memoir that his father writes to recount the hostility that he got when he just moved to New York City from Puerto Rico in the 1940s. History repeats itself. It happens seventy years later. In the country or—in macro scale—world that gets worse each day, TWIABP voice the power of kindness.Always Foreign is TWIABP's best album to date and it's mostly because of how emotional and visceral the album can be. "Infinite Steve" is definitely the highlight of the album, a six-minute song, the second-longest song on the album, that sounds like remnant of theirHarmlessness, but it definitely belongs to the album. Another highlight that instantly minces my gut is "For Robin", a funeral song, a ballad for TWIABP's hero named "Robin".
Robin's name may not be famous or heard throughout the world, but he's important for TWIABP. Robin can represent our dear friend, our people who fight for their equality, who died because of holding what they believe. "For Robin" itself is a somber acoustic track, the saddest moment on the album. Bello whispers as he recalls all the good memories that he had experienced. "Getting drunk on the clock," he said. "For Robin" is a ballad dedicated to people who struggle with their despair, either because of alcohol or drug addiction, but it's also a eulogy for our best friend, people who are gone too soon. It sounds so personal, yet at the same time TWIABP try to criticize the people habit in exhibiting their mourning every time a celebrity passes away. In an interview with Stereogum, Bello states that famous people's deaths are horrible, indeed, but we don't know them personally. We should just let people who actually know them mourn and we should mourn our people that we actually know, love, and care. With that statement in mind, it's hard not to cry when we listen to "For Robin". At the final arc of the song, they shift the key, and Bello's whisper gets louder. He sees the personal belongings of his friend being stripped away as a reminder—but it also represents the state of our memories where our friends die. We are wrapped in grief, but there's a tiny part in our head that remembers all the good thing that happens together. There's no other eulogy that's as perfect as "For Robin".
Source: https://landofpretentiousness.wordpress.com/2017/10/08/review-sunday-the-world-is-a-beautiful-place-i-am-no-longer-afraid-to-die-for-robin/
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