One day the world will end. Everything will go black, the buildings will twist upwards, the stars will fall, and the curtain will draw shut on the entire universe. When that day comes, don’t say Vic Chesnutt didn’t tell you so.
North Star Deserter is, without doubt, the record of Chesnutt’s career. Far more vast and dark than anything he has ever produced in his acclaimed and legendary career. The reason for this is pretty simple when you take a peak at the liner notes. Recorded at Montreal’s Hotel2Tango with members of A Silver MT. Zion and Godspeed You Black Emperor!, the record is chocked full of the kind of start-stop explosions of fierce instrumentation that spurred those bands, without losing a hint of the effectiveness in Vic’s literal and sparse songwriting.
To quote REM frontman and Chesnutt admirer Michael Stipe, it’s the end of the world as we knew it and Vic Chesnutt feels fine. There are no ways out here, no one searching for an answer to the problems. Just seeing the problems, seeing the poetic beauty and ugliness in them and utilizing an innate gift to make words paint pictures.
[mp3] Vic Chesnutt – Everything I Say
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