Artist: The Mountain Goats
Song: International Small Arms Traffic Blues
Album: Tallahassee (2002)
Personal rating: ****
The Mountain Goats, lead by John Darnielle. Folk, acoustic, singer/songwriter. His style is very unique, I enjoy how he describes things very vivid and plainly, with an almost child-like blatancy.This song in particular is more down tempo then most other songs on the album. It offers a bit of a break, but still remains in the melodramatic-esque style that Darnielle is good for. The album follows a couple that are in a marriage that is falling apart as they move to a new house. In "International Small Arms Traffic Blues" he uses quite uncommon metaphors to compare both his love, and unpleasant global situations
Favorite line: "Our love is like the border between Greece and Albania; trucks loaded down with weapons, crossing over every night"
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