{"id":1795,"date":"2020-03-28T23:20:28","date_gmt":"2020-03-29T06:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1795"},"modified":"2020-03-28T23:20:28","modified_gmt":"2020-03-29T06:20:28","slug":"dispatches-for-luna-max-06","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1795","title":{"rendered":"Dispatches for Luna &#038; Max (#06)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5W9TJ2JUW9c\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If ever there was a band that should have been an utter disaster, Dead Man&#8217;s Bones would have been the one to bet on. A celebrity&#8217;s (Gosling) side project, a halloween themed album, and a children&#8217;s choir? That sounds\u00a0<em>terrible<\/em>. And yet, a decade later, it&#8217;s still one of my most listened to albums. (I always appreciated the opening of the <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/13543-dead-mans-bones\/\">Pitchfork review<\/a> of the album in this regard.)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Name in Stone&#8221;&#8211;as far as I can tell&#8211;was the only non-album track that was released from this project.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Name in Stone&#8221; doesn&#8217;t have the same highs as some of the other songs on the album proper (e.g. &#8220;My Body&#8217;s a Zombie for You&#8221; or &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LV2Ux3O_XRc&amp;list=PL3YEQu34AQxyEmQes34ELx77guf7c3xfm\">Pa Pa Power<\/a>&#8220;)\n<ul>\n<li>Sub dispatch: &#8220;Pa Pa Power&#8221; might be one of the more affirming songs I would listen to when I needed a boost. It also might be anarchic, anthemic song we need in this current pandemic moment, &#8220;Burn the street, burn the cars, Pa pa power, pa pa power!&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s weird how Gosling&#8217;s career interwove his singing more and more after this album&#8217;s release. He does a song in\u00a0<em>Blue Valentine<\/em> and then, of course,\u00a0<em>La La Land<\/em>\u00a0a while later. In whatever context you get the same guttural doo-wop-y vocals that are central to Dead Man&#8217;s Bones.<\/li>\n<li>The video approximates the goofiness of the band&#8217;s live shows. The different times I saw them around L.A., the children would be dressed in retro halloween costumes and the opener would be something of a variety show\/camp-y magician act. It was very in step with the atmosphere of Dead Man&#8217;s Bones: &#8220;fun&#8221; scary. (You get the vibe in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IRFeUc2KnBY\">this<\/a> video, I think.)<\/li>\n<li>I appreciate that the &#8220;Name in Stone&#8221; video feels like a cobbled together, student-film. Like their shows and the album as a whole, it feels like it was fun to make. It was probably a fairly expensive side project that couldn&#8217;t have been all that profitable compared to the demands of Hollywood. The band would play a couple unreleased songs at their shows, but I can&#8217;t imagine a second album ever making a lot of sense financially.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I raised my flag up into your heart, and you let the winds come tear it apart.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Uh, Dead Man&#8217;s Bones Name in Stone take two. 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A celebrity&#8217;s (Gosling) side project, a halloween themed album, and a children&#8217;s choir? That sounds\u00a0terrible. And yet, a decade later, it&#8217;s still one of my most listened to albums. 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