I Just Read About That…

SOUNDTRACK: HURON-“Corktown” (2010).

Huron‘s “Corktown” opens with a guitar riff that sounds like classic 70s rock (hello Thin Lizzy!).  But when the song kicks in for good, the verses are a light, jangly pop.  It makes for a really interesting mix of styles and it works really well.

Some of the other tracks include the screaming rock of “Big Dig” (which has chord progressions of Neil Young but sounds nothing like Neil Young).  It also features some wonderfully stupid fat bass sounds as the song nears its conclusion.  “Bloodfire” has another great guitar solo.  And the vocalist sounds an awful lot like one of the guys from Sloan (who knew Sloan could be so influential?)

Thanks CBC Radio 3 for introducing me to this great band.

[READ: June 15, 2010] “Sun Na, Bird”

This final piece is at the same time the bleakest and yet most hopeful story of the group.

It is the near future and in this suburban Canadian town, all the humans have fled, with no intention of returning (the TV is still on in the house where the story takes place).

Sun Na, (also known as Bird) and her companion enter the house and explore.  They do what animals do: they make it their own.  And over the course of this brief story, nature (well, animals) reclaim the territory.

I can’t quite tell what kind of animal Sun Na is (there’s a few possibilities for me).  And while that doesn’t matter to the story, I wonder if I missed an obvious clue.

The hope comes not in the desolation, or even in the thought of animals taking over, but in the joy that the animals feel for the future.

It’s available here.