Antiques One Track Mind DC City Paper Review!
The Antiques were featured on One Track Mind in Washington DC's City Paper. The track is Sewn With Stitches. The details are below. Also, Taking The Piss, a long-time-legendary DC night is throwing a CD release party for The Antiques this Friday. Go to DC Soundclash for the details.
City Paper Article
STANDOUT TRACK:
No. 9, “Chutes and Ladders,” a pithy combination of baritone postpunk vocals, uplifting chord changes, and a strong backbeat. Frontman Greg Svitil begins “With one foot in the grave/And one foot in the bathrobe,” then weaves his way through a series of cryptic images.
MUSICAL MOTIVATION:
“The song in general is about using art to take cover from external nuisances,” says Svitil, a LeDroit Park resident. Seemingly opaque lines such as “I get no Noel” and “Kissing a teething veil” refer to real experiences: Much of the tune’s inspiration came from a bad Christmas season when Svitil was “momentarily fired” and had a falling-out with a friend who was hospitalized shortly afterward. And the bit about the veil? It’s a reference to a wall piece by sculptor Marisol Escobar—called Veil—that is “a plaster cast of her face that has monstrous hair and unusually sharp teeth,” Svitil says. “I’ve found a great deal of solace in the strength and confidence of that piece over the years.”
SLIDING SCALE:
The song’s title, meanwhile, was indirectly inspired by Kirsty MacColl’s take on the Smiths’ “You Just Haven’t Earned It Yet, Baby.” A friend of Svitil’s said that MacColl’s delivery of the phrase “suffer and cry” made it sound like a children’s game. “In light of so many things apparently going wrong during the time that I was writing the song, it all struck me as really absurd but not terribly important in the grand scheme of things,” Svitil says. “It occurred to me that I was living on a Chutes and Ladders board.
City Paper Article
STANDOUT TRACK:
No. 9, “Chutes and Ladders,” a pithy combination of baritone postpunk vocals, uplifting chord changes, and a strong backbeat. Frontman Greg Svitil begins “With one foot in the grave/And one foot in the bathrobe,” then weaves his way through a series of cryptic images.
MUSICAL MOTIVATION:
“The song in general is about using art to take cover from external nuisances,” says Svitil, a LeDroit Park resident. Seemingly opaque lines such as “I get no Noel” and “Kissing a teething veil” refer to real experiences: Much of the tune’s inspiration came from a bad Christmas season when Svitil was “momentarily fired” and had a falling-out with a friend who was hospitalized shortly afterward. And the bit about the veil? It’s a reference to a wall piece by sculptor Marisol Escobar—called Veil—that is “a plaster cast of her face that has monstrous hair and unusually sharp teeth,” Svitil says. “I’ve found a great deal of solace in the strength and confidence of that piece over the years.”
SLIDING SCALE:
The song’s title, meanwhile, was indirectly inspired by Kirsty MacColl’s take on the Smiths’ “You Just Haven’t Earned It Yet, Baby.” A friend of Svitil’s said that MacColl’s delivery of the phrase “suffer and cry” made it sound like a children’s game. “In light of so many things apparently going wrong during the time that I was writing the song, it all struck me as really absurd but not terribly important in the grand scheme of things,” Svitil says. “It occurred to me that I was living on a Chutes and Ladders board.
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