Tuesday 5 July 2011

Ramshackle Glory - Live The Dream (2011)





Genre: Folk Punk
Sounds Like: Wingnut Dishwashers Union, Johnny Hobo and The Freight Trains

Review: This is the new record from the new Pat the Bunny project, whose fresh out of rehab from herion addiction. I was expecting an album filled with optimism and hope for a new future and all that reborn new life stuff. But what you get is an album that gives insight into the feelings of an actual recovered addict and not some hollywood happily ever after ending. You get an image of a guy who's just as lost as he's always been, just now he's got nothing to lean on.

Maybe I was a bit over the average excited about this album because I loved the Wingnut 'Burn The Earth...' record so much, but I was not dissapointed by this at all. Pat's lyrics are better then ever and his voice has gotten alot better, the arrangments are more complicated, and with references to the likes of Karl Marx, Huey Newton, Allen Ginsberg, the Spanish civil war and Thomas Robert Malthus a dickhead hipster like me eats this stuff up.

There's moments of  severe depression in here "I stay up nights afraid of everything, till all that’s left is the shadows and me. Ask me from sunrise to sunset: no, I ain’t left the house yet, but there's also some really optimistic moments "So when I’m staring down at my hands I can’t explain just what it is that I’m thinking of, except thank god that all my veins have to pump is my blood.

I've loved this album, and with a few more listens I'm sure the songs here will become part of my life like all of Pat the Bunny's stuff. I hope you all like it.



Link : Live The Dream