Delicate Heart, Diabolical Mind.

nprmusic have a podcast called All Songs Considered, which if you want a recomendation for a damn good podcast go and hunt that down. On that podcast they introduced me to Dan Deacon and his new album America. I have been listening to this for a few days straight now, I feel I need to vent a few thought about this album. This album has a lot of different elements within it from melodically beautiful to crushingly noisy. This is a concept album of sorts, a response to the tumult the nation has faced over the last decade.

It is hard to exactly work out what message Deacon is trying to portray about America as any lyrics are largely buried beneath a wall of sound. The underlying message is mostly portrayed through the music as it swells and falls, most particularly on the album’s centrepiece, the closing suite ’USA’. The four songs are wildly different yet supremely rousing and strangely celebratory. This is music that crosses rivers and canyons with boundless ambition.

Go out and get this Album. It is brilliant.

Stream America now.