Mercury Rising

This is pretty much the laziest way to blog, but geez, I've been busy lately!

A repurposing of Mark and I's conversation on Bloc Party's new album, Mercury.

Mark: whats up?
Whitney: I finally listened to intimacy
Mark: finally? why did you wait?
Whitney: because i had to wait until someone else bought it and sent it to me...
:x
Mark: ugh....see if you were speaking to me I could have sent you the link Thursday morning
2:27 PM Whitney: well
i wasn't
Mark: c'est la vie
so what do you think?
Whitney: exactement
i like it
Mark: how much have you listened to it?
2:28 PM Whitney: it's so funny because we've come to expect greatness and when they veer off the path, it's harder to deal with
Mark: b/c I felt like I like it at first, but its only grown on me
Whitney: just a few times
i have listened to signs like 100 times already, which is so weird, because usually i hate the slow songs at first
it just builds
2:29 PM Mark: I love that quote about expecting greatness
2:30 PM Whitney: thanks
it's true though!
Mark: yeah it really is true
I listened to AWITC last night, and Intimacy isn't really all that experimental
2:31 PM Whitney: yeah?
Mark: several songs are (Mercury, Ares) but I felt like Intimacy was a natural progression of the band from AWITC
Whitney: of course
Mark: I almost feel like they didn't go as electronic as they could have
2:32 PM opting more for the electronic feel that U2 and Snow Patrol have that plays well with rock in live settings
Whitney: the fucking hook in "One Month Off" sounds like Uniform
absolutely, i was expecting more electro
I don't think they wanted to alienate anyone
2:33 PM Mark: I agree, and so much of their success is due to Silent Alarm, they can't just abandon it
you know what shocks me more than anything? is how personal and sappy these lyrics are
Whitney: yeah? like what?
Mark: I was reading them last night as I listened to the sings and they aren't the steely double entendres that Bloc used to rock out
2:34 PM more than half the songs on the album are love songs, sappy love songs
Whitney: that's interesting
AWITC was a bit political, as well
I'm not sure about this one
2:35 PM (like Hunting for Witches)
Mark: Kele has called this his 'breakup' album in that he was going through a breakup when he wrote it
http://www.blocparty.net/halo.html
2:36 PM Those lyrics are just so...mundane
Whitney: hmmm
yeah
"Behind your eyes were stars
Infinite and serene"
riiiiiiiiiiiight
2:37 PM Mark: thats what I'm sayin!
I mean...you could put these lyrics in a JoJo song and nobody would notice
Whitney: hahahah
but!
in Kele's defense
2:38 PM when you're going through that kind of shit, your perspective is so skewed
you can't see the other side because you're going through it
Mark: oh so skewed!
Whitney: i couldn't write sappy lyrics if i tried, but i could when i was going through a breakup
Mark: very true
2:39 PM I read some things post breakup and was like, wow, this is awful
Whitney: hahahaha i know!
you just get so hopeless when you're in The Shit
Mark: I also get pleasure out of knowing that all these lyrics are about two gay men and prctically nobody knows it
2:40 PM Whitney: ahha
honestly