18. Landlocked Blues- Bright Eyes

I spent a whole month recently listening to nothing but the Bright eyes album, “I’m wide awake it’s morning”. This is a man whose every song echos something of the fight to express the meaningless of this life, to work through the pain, to express the hollowness and to ask the questions of identity and purpose. He doesn’t write your average verse chorus, verse chorus songs. Every song is an epic journey, poems to music, anguish expressed in beautiful ways. Landlocked Blues pretty much has it all, lines such as, “the worlds got me dizzy again, after 22 years you’d think I’d get used to spin”, and “You’ll be free child once you have died, from the shackles of language and measurable time.” Questioning anguish has never been expressed so well.