Don’t fight it, just do it right. If you’re experiencing your very own summer of hate this year, you’ll most certainly want to add the Purrs latest album to your rotation. On Pie In The Sky,The Purrs articulate the landscape of American culture in all its homogeneous extremity. “But in this wasteland/There’s nothing that anyone would call home. ” The album is not entirely, ahem, unpatriotic, however. There are beautifully pessimistic songs aplenty. I’m Slipping is a lackadaisical confession of one’s inability to be a dependable lover. “Maybe somehow I will get back my head/But I don’t think so.” On the tambourine heavy and super distorted Only Dreaming (a Red Lory Yellow Lory cover) ,we can recall how well we treat those closest to us while facing a self perpetuated isolation that is best cast by the shadow of being in love.
