The Plan’s Change
I've been driving Laura's car a lot this week as she took the day off on Tuesday (she was very run down from all the travel). So I grabbed a CD from the desk to listen to and it turned out to be Change by The Dismemberment Plan. After repeated listening I can now say this is really a pretty interesting album. The lyrics are a little weak, but the music is really inventive and Travis actually sings in tune on this album. To be fair he started doing this on the last album Emergency & I but he's really on on this album. Now if we could just knock the lyrics to a new level...
I'm really impressed with the dynamics, and they get some wicked cool chords on this disc too. As usual the time signatures are all over the map and jammed up against each other. This time though they never go off on a rhythmic rant like they do on their other albums. On repeated listens I find myself reminded of bands that surprise me. Bands that I would have never thought the plan could remind me of (XTC, The Talking Heads) leap to mind on a couple tracks. Very nice stuff.
