I almost think of taking the trip to "Montezuma" by a Landslide; very inviting with their lovely harmonies and Pecknold sounds just as awesome as ever.Anyone here ever wear a "Bedouin Dress?" Well, I must say that I really like the violin on the song, as well as the rest of the insrumentals which sound like they have some eastern influence, with a light doowop backdrop; and this verse hits me "If to borrow is to take and not return/I have borrowed all my lonesome life/And I can't, no I can't get through/The borrower's debt is the only regret of my youth/And believe me it's not easy when I look back/ Everything I took got soon returned." "Sim Sala Bim" is really nice, but the last minute is the best part, after he wakes from the dream of course.The "Battery Kinzie" is of a faster pace that tires out and instead trots for a shortwhile; there is a little blip of some horns in there too. I'm just taking a drive down "The Plains/Bitter Dancer" what's your deal? The first two minutes have their beautiful, angelic harmonies which seems to gradually speed up a little bit from the beginning. There is a pause which opens the second part, and around 4:30 there is a quick driving beat for a few seconds, with some strumming,then it returns ot that quicker pace. This is a type of prodigal son song "Should have known one day you would come/All of us walk so blind in the sun/Midnight feeder, beggar pleader/I should had known one day you would come/Tell me again my only son/Tell me again what have you done/At arm's lengths/I will hold you there.""Helplessness Blues" is a quick tempo folkie, not right away, that then slows down at 2:48 with a nice riff and powerful prominent drums telling you if they had an orchard they would work till they're raw and sore, yet those voices will be far from horse. "The Cascades" is a fiddle and string led instrumental. Oh "so, guess I got old/I was like trash on the sidewalk/I, guess I knew why/Often it's hard to just sweet talk. "Lorelai" has great synergy with that beat and guitar making an addictive timesig ,and we cannot forget those beautiful harmonies, but it's "probably old news to you then." I hope I can be "Someone You'd Admire," and this song is slow paced acoustic strummed 2:29 song;singing that "One of them wants only to be someone you'd admire/One would as soon just throw you on the fire/After all is said, and after all is done/God only knows which of them I'll become."The Shrine/An Argument" is probably the longest track at 8:07, and sounds nice in the beginning, but really picks up after 2:30 with a quicker pace, and slows down around 4:11. After silence, Banjo bob? not onl that but an argument occurs between horns around 6:24, which sound like geese, and some strings to round it off the end. This track has a "Blue Spotted Tail," which also has Pecknold unassisted by really anything else, but some lovely strummed soft guitar."The "Grown Ocean" has a driving river that flows into it because the percussion is quick paced, but is second to the harmonies of the foxes. Is this a river on the Eastern hemisphere? Sometimes the ocean sways enough for waves, but sometimes not. really nice instrumentals. If I could only choose 6 songs to rid myself of those blues I would choose: Bedouin Dress, The Plains/Bitter Dancer, The Cascades, Lorelai, The Shrine/An Argument, and Grown Ocean. 

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