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Elvis perkins has a legitimate claim to the melancholy-singer-songwriter thing:
His father, the actor Anthony Perkins, died of AIDS when Elvis was seventeen, and
his mother was killed on one of the planes on September 11th, 2001. Perkins alludes
to his past obliquely, but it's hard to avoid -- for one, the album title appears
to refer to the day after 9/11. "While You Were Sleeping" has a trancelike
feel and chilling lyrics ("I made a death suit for life/For my father's ill-
widowed wife"). Most tracks stick to a downbeat, acoustic-folk template, although
"May Day!" sounds like a lost Neutral Milk Hotel hoedown. On the standout
"Emile's Vietnam in the Sky," which mixes French dialogue with fiddle
and accordion accents, Perkins asks, "Do you ever wonder where you go when
you die?" He has.
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Track List
- While You Were Sleeping
- All The Night Without Love
- May Day !
- Moon Woman 2
- It's Only Me
- Emile's Vietnam In The Sky
- Ash Wednesday
- The Night And The Liquor
- It's A Sad World
- Sleep Sandwich
- Good Friday
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