Young the Giant an Academic Conversation

I know it deviates from my usual blog posts but I'd like to take a minute to talk about Young the Giant and their new album Mind Over Matter. They aren't local but they did recently do a show here in Columbia!

Album Review and Cultural Analysis: Ennui Go by Can't Kids

Ennui Go by Can't Kids is an album with a variety of themes, sounds, and styles. It is mostly a very energetic album with ample cello and guitar interlaced between many of the songs. The vocals throughout the album vary greatly within the songs, some songs opening with a softer vocal and becoming louder toward the middle, evolving into shouting like in the opening track "O Mama," and others starting very loud and abrasive and alternating between periods of shouting and then singing like "More Soda." Their song "Alison Wonder" off the album is a bit of an outlier from the others from the beginning as it starts out with a very 80s metal style guitar riff and with an even more punk style than the others in terms of lyrics and vocals. Just the name of the song "Alison Wonder" when spoken hurriedly sounds like "Alice in Wonder" and seems to be a reference to pop culture surrounding the book Alice's Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and further alludes to it in the first two lines with lyrics, "ennui go down the homophonic rabbit hole, COME ON! down the homophonic rabbit whole!" first making an allusion to Alice's descent into Wonderland through the rabbit hole.