{"id":1924,"date":"2021-06-23T00:01:42","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T07:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1924"},"modified":"2021-06-23T00:01:42","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T07:01:42","slug":"dispatches-for-luna-max-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1924","title":{"rendered":"Dispatches for Luna &#038; Max (#14)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mhQmlWVGOjM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On first listen, this song&#8217;s kind of doing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fHiGbolFFGw\">Paranoid Android<\/a>, in that it sounds like three different songs mashed together. So it&#8217;s kind of also just an emo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vdvnOH060Qg\">Happiness is a Warm Gun<\/a> (the emo-est of the Beatles&#8217; song title by a mile!).<\/li>\n<li>But here&#8217;s the thing: it&#8217;s\u00a0<em>not<\/em> a Paranoid Android or a Happiness. The song hangs together.<\/li>\n<li>It hangs together out of sheer frustration, loneliness, and pleading. It&#8217;s a song about letting go and coming home and doing both at the same time. The entire thing builds up to a simple thesis: &#8220;I miss coming home to you\/I hate coming home.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Admittedly, the song sounds like a <em>fine,\u00a0<\/em>if typical, emo\/punk song for the first minute and a half. But then it goes on a journey (like a musician being a little too road-weary). Two and a half minutes in and the song drops any pretensions and just goes straight to heart-filled pathos and ennui: &#8220;All these other motherfucking dipshits can bite me.&#8221; Honestly, it doesn&#8217;t even sound like an annoying line by the time it sneaks up on you.<\/li>\n<li>I want to yell along with some dumb &#8220;yeahs&#8221; and this song feels like the fact that I (we?) haven&#8217;t seen live music&#8211;in person&#8211;for a year and a half at this point, the longest period by several multiples since being a teenager.<\/li>\n<li>I think about Jeff Rosenstock releasing this song (the final track on his most recent album) in the midst of a pandemic&#8211;adrift from a world and an audience. A song that demands chanting and collective screaming: &#8220;You&#8217;re the only person that I wanted to like me \/You&#8217;re the only person that I wanted to like me.&#8221; And not being able to participate in the catharsis that emo thrives on.<\/li>\n<li>And then, by transforming a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jeffrosenstock\/status\/1377670986581995522?lang=en\">joke tweet<\/a> into a living, breathing, honest-to-god\u00a0<em>good<\/em> ska <a href=\"https:\/\/jeffrosenstock.bandcamp.com\/album\/ska-dream\">album<\/a>, he released the song\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=s3P4bPAULIw\"><em>again<\/em><\/a> in the middle of the same goddamn pandemic. Twice the pleading, twice the angst, twice the loneliness in coming home:\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;We relive every misstep that we&#8217;ve made in our lives.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>I confess I get hooked deeply on one or two songs on every one of Rosenstock&#8217;s albums. I think about the simplicity of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=due-qiswArQ\">9\/10<\/a> all the time. This verbal introduction of <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/To3sUcSYpp0?t=1119\">Festival Song<\/a>&#8211;sharing his band&#8217;s fee for performing at a dumb festival &#8230; at the actual dumb festival&#8211;is one of my favorite introductions to a song.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Nobody wishes for the things that they already have.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Tell people this is awesome:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1924&amp;share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email this to a friend\"><span>Email<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-1924\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1924&amp;share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-1924\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1924&amp;share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-print\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-print sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1924\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to print\"><span>Print<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-pinterest\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-pinterest-1924\" class=\"share-pinterest sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1924&amp;share=pinterest\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Pinterest\"><span>Pinterest<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-tumblr\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-tumblr sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1924&amp;share=tumblr\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Tumblr\"><span>Tumblr<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-reddit\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-reddit sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1924&amp;share=reddit\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Reddit\"><span>Reddit<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-linkedin-1924\" class=\"share-linkedin sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1924&amp;share=linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on LinkedIn\"><span>LinkedIn<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-pocket\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-pocket sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1924&amp;share=pocket\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Pocket\"><span>Pocket<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On first listen, this song&#8217;s kind of doing a Paranoid Android, in that it sounds like three different songs mashed together. So it&#8217;s kind of also just an emo Happiness is a Warm Gun (the emo-est of the Beatles&#8217; song title by a mile!). But here&#8217;s the thing: it&#8217;s\u00a0not a Paranoid Android or a Happiness. 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