.:: Though songwriter Dave Bazan fronts the enigmatic rock band Pedro the Lion, his emotionally charged narratives, eye for telling detail, and mournful voice have more in common with J.D. Salingers “Nine Stories” or Flannery O'Connors “Wise Blood” than with the usual lyrical slant of popular music. Bazan is a gifted storyteller, weaving parables of spiritual conflict, suburban ennui, and personal surrender into magnetic, well-crafted songs.
In 1998 Pedro the Lion released their first full-length record, the intimate, charming “Its Hard to Find a Friend.” For this, their homemade debut, Bazan arranged songs about draft dodgers, leg hair phobics, trans ams, and cheating lovers into a deeply moving album, which one critic praised as “expressing the tension between the sacred and secular unlike any record since Al Greens “Call Me.”
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2 comments:
Good album. I'd have to say I'm much more a fan of this than Achilles Heel.
hey soundless_space
yeah, i find this album warm & honest,
on the other hand, i love the home recorded sound.
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