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| Ben NicholsThe Last Pale Light in the West2009 Rebel Group
Review by: MN_punkmaster-skaman See others by this writer Lucero (link) Only registered users can post comments Published on January 30th 2009
Before I begin my review on this mini-album, one should be informed about the novel this is entirely based on. The book is Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy. It is an epic novel set in the American southwest in the 1850s after the Mexican War. The story follows the Kid on a journey along the Texas-Mexico border. He joins up with a gang that murders Indians for their scalps. It challenges much of the mythology and conventions that one learns about the “Wild West” with the graphic violence it depicts through out the novel. The Judge, the antagonist of the story, kills for the pleasure of it, including the false persecution of a preacher at the beginning of the story. It is a very apocalyptic look at the West.
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This guy. That's all. oh wait... you did mention no country hahah i'm fucking blind! you didn't mention that cormac mccarthy also wrote no country for old men! Great book, and I really liked hearing Nichols doing the acoustic thing again, but this didn't do much for me. forget forgot... ah fucking hell. forget the score... Simply amazing. It's incredible how well he managed to get the tone of the book into these songs. maybe it's because I'm a huge fan of both Lucero and Blood Meridian, but this blew me away. can't stop listening to it, and it got me to re-read the book (which is way easier to understand the second time through) this needs to be released on vinyl. Pretty darn good, I think. How did I miss this? How did I miss this? I hate this man and his band. Hate. forgot to score. love this. I can't get into this as much as I'd like to. |