The Airborne Toxic Event (Deluxe Edition)
The Airborne Toxic Event
Released:
Jan 2008
Label:
Island Records
For this LA-based guitar pop band, channeling devastating life events into song is an upbeat artform. Clearly taking cues from masked melancholy masters The Smiths, or more recently Arcade Fire, frontman/lyricist Mikel Jollett sings his pained, poetic stories about heartbreaking run-ins with exes ("Sometime Around Midnight"), and desperate attempts to calm his nerves ("Something New"). Meanwhile the optimistic, new-wave inspired, violin-heavy musicality of the band shrouds the depressive words in disco beats and post-punk fervor.
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