Tag: political
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The One-Eyed King
On a song about blindness, amusement, and who gets crowned Everyone knows the proverb: in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. We hear it as a story about the clever outsider who rises. “The One-Eyed King” asks a darker question. What does it say about a people when a half-blind man…
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The Street Remembers
The Street Remembers: A Review There’s a specific discipline in Viktor Tsoi’s writing that most songwriters who try to imitate him miss. It isn’t just brevity — plenty of writers can write short lines. It’s that Tsoi built his songs almost entirely out of the plainest nouns available to him — street, window, night, fire,…
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The Glass Wall
The Glass Wall: A Song Review What We Owe the Dust We Watch Fall There is a particular kind of horror that doesn’t announce itself as horror. It arrives at sixty-eight degrees, with the wine breathing and the leather soft underneath you. It arrives mid-swallow. That is the horror “The Glass Wall” is built to…