Coverpage (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} primroseport) wrote,@ 2007-06-15 05:26:00 |
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Wind Whistles Through a Skull
Blue Sky Theory wins some praise from this reviewer.
An earlier reviewer raised an interesting point when, with apparent confidence, he explained to his readers that the narrative was set entirely in a post-apocalyptic world. Though that is incorrect (technically, the world ends during the song The Smash), I would that it were the truth. Too many songs were nixed on the way to the final cut, and most of those were the post-apoc songs, making the album front-heavy with the pre-apoc. But who's to say the world hasn't ended, to a certain extent, before the first word is heard? Tomorrow, out of curiosity, I will read the album in its entirety, with new eyes, and see whether the reviewer was right, or whether there is any way to know for sure. I am tempted to re-imagine The Lionhead Nation as the proudest and least damaged realm in a ruined or quickly decaying world, the last mighty country, but a country rotting from the inside and surrounded by lawlessness and chaos about its boundaries. It makes perhaps a little more sense, then, why they would desire to make war with the remainder of the world's crumbling nations and establish for themselves an empire. If I could go back, I'd make this re-imagining evident.
Blue Sky Theory wins some praise from this reviewer.
An earlier reviewer raised an interesting point when, with apparent confidence, he explained to his readers that the narrative was set entirely in a post-apocalyptic world. Though that is incorrect (technically, the world ends during the song The Smash), I would that it were the truth. Too many songs were nixed on the way to the final cut, and most of those were the post-apoc songs, making the album front-heavy with the pre-apoc. But who's to say the world hasn't ended, to a certain extent, before the first word is heard? Tomorrow, out of curiosity, I will read the album in its entirety, with new eyes, and see whether the reviewer was right, or whether there is any way to know for sure. I am tempted to re-imagine The Lionhead Nation as the proudest and least damaged realm in a ruined or quickly decaying world, the last mighty country, but a country rotting from the inside and surrounded by lawlessness and chaos about its boundaries. It makes perhaps a little more sense, then, why they would desire to make war with the remainder of the world's crumbling nations and establish for themselves an empire. If I could go back, I'd make this re-imagining evident.
