Parenthetical Girls - Safe As Houses (Oedipus, 2006)

Back in my last.fm days, I wrote a long, detailed piece about this album, specifically its lyrics. Clearly, from the music on this blog, you don't see too many albums about lyrics, and I generally ignore them. Instead of re-inventing the wheel and re-reviewing this, and to spare my buddies on here a simple copy and paste, I want to encourage you, as always, to simply listen to the album, and instead of getting caught up in the indie signposts, you should think about the level of cohesion here. The album shifts moods, changes angles of observation, all around small, yet profound relationships - normally mother and child, and how each react to the loss or death waiting for their opposite. Gripping listen, and not a put on. I don't like their follow up, but this seems sincere, and if you start to sense the sincerity, go directly to 'Survived...' to be heartbroken. I still get chills on that track.