i have listened to this over and over and over again. whenever it’s playing, i feel like i’m listening to what music was always meant to be. i’ve written essays on it, i’ve cried to it, and i’ve gone on many road trips with it…i love it dearly. in my opinion, it’s a once in a lifetime album made by a once in a lifetime band.
this whole album and the title song transport me to Arezzo, where I lived in an art commune studying commedia dell’arte in 2011. the album came out a few months before I arrived and soundtracked every tramonto, every walk down the hilly outskirts into the walled city.
I know this album cover is imprinted into the corneas of many already. but I’m listening to this ~8 yrs after I first found it, which sort of marked the start of my own self-discovery w music (along with, who else, but velvet underground). and since they are both so huge, I’ve had a hard time listening to them as earnestly in years since. of course relationships with music change, but I think I became embarrassed by the earnestness of this album & its internet overexposure. but it is sincere and beautiful (+ a little freaky and smutty) and it is very special to come back to every now and then. it turns on a certain part of my soul I can’t usually access when I come to it at the right moment. full of love and oneness w humanity, time transcendent “let us lay in the sun and count every beautiful thing we can see”
