Sinister: Felt Albums

[Matthew Neimark]

One of my favorite albums in the whole wide world is by Felt.  _Forever 
Breathes the Lonely Word_.  It is quite literaly a half-hour of orgasmic 
mind blowing experience.  Listening to it makes me feel as if I were 
falling through canyons in Utah during the hot summer sun.  By the 
albums climax (Gather Up your wings and Fly.) I'm so engaged.  My heart 
is beating viciously and I feel like entering right into the song.  
Lawrence is in my head.  Martin Duffy is playing the hammond of my soul.  
I'm soaring above the Arizona desert.

Err... perhaps I'm exaggerating.  But the fact is that the album is a 
perfect mix of goth, pop, and country.  (Lawrence mastered the steel 
guitar at this point and John A. Rivers is the master of musical 
production.)  Definitely in my top ten of LPs (including Tigermilk and 
Toulouse's "The Way the City Stretches.").  But go-figure.  This album 
clicked with me.  A lot of the other Felt albums I like (and can find 
stand-out songs even), but nothing near FBTLW, the king of Felt albums.

Oh and somebody said that Lawrence never sang "The World is Soft as 
Lace."  They are right.  He sang something like, "The softest lace I 
could touch" in this song.  But that's not the point.  In "London has 
let me Down" he sings of the sadness of not being able to find Lawrence.  
But the song can apply to anything.  For me it applies to returning to a 
certain foreign country in search of a certain lost love...

Matt


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