Reviews, Interviews, News, Commentaries, Glimpses of God, Best-Of ListsPaper Route: The Peace of Wild Things
Style: Beat-heavy indie pop; compare to Passion Pit, Mutemath, M83
Top tracks: "Calm My Soul," "Love Letters," "Sugar"
Paper Route's 2009 debut, Absence, delivered a strong following. Then the band plunged into years of label red tape, cancer in the family, and the dissolution of frontman J.T. Daly's marriage. The Peace of Wild Things is the infectious catharsis, wearing its heart on its sleeve. The band dances its troubles away with its own style, but influences of Tears for Fears, Cocteau Twins, Moby, and Coldplay take turns surfacing. The synth-heavy sounds swell to epic proportions as literary lyrics grapple with loss. Faith underlies the searching and questioning. "Glass Heart Hymn" is an electro-psalm of lament. And "Calm My Soul" provides a climatic surrender, pleading "God, calm my soul."
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A Fractured and Beautiful Faith
Streaming This Weekend, May 24, 2013
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Larry Langley
The title for this recording is from a poem by the same title. The poem is written by Wendell Berry. THE PEACE OF WILD THINGS When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. — Wendell Berry Wendell Berry's bio can be found here http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/wendell-berry