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Two Guitars!
Apparently at some point in the near to not so near past, Unwed Sailor added a second guitar. It does give them the ability to pull out a more ambient, blasts in the atmosphere sort of sound, though I’m not quite sure what I think of that. What I’ve always most liked most about them was the raw, honest indie rock thing. Very minimalist, but in a good way. I guess the post-rock kids these days have to have their building and falling background screech guitar, and the market knows. Or something. I definitely don’t. Know what I’m talking about that is. Or anything for that matter.
The Faithful Anchor / Firecracker era songs seemed to have had second guitar parts written for them, the upshot being that one of the parts was still more or less the original one, so the songs still sounded like the same song. This a welcome relief to the personal alarm established last December when a single guitarist at the show apparently meant that only the new guitar parts were played, with the result being that all the old songs just sounded wrong, albeit good, to my ears.
So far I’m liking the new album, Little Wars, quite a bit. More like The Faithful Anchor than any of their subsequent albums, me thinks. Although truth be told I did like The Marionette and the Music Box quite a bit for the amazing departure that it was.
Lastly, let it be known that Jonathan Ford still rocks out with mad Burton rhythm when playing bass!