It’s been over a month since Matthew Squires and The Learning Disorders dropped Where The Music Goes To Die, and it’s been about a week since I sat down and wrote these words that you’re reading now. The holidays are a slow time for little bloggers like myself. So I took a break and then beat myself for not listening to this record sooner than I did. It’d been sitting in my inbox for weeks and then I decided to get a head start on 2015 and have this ready to go. Oh my lord, you know that feeling when you hear a line and it just stops everything around you and the words form a constant animated swirl around your mind? Yup, that’s what a lot of this record did and I’m glad this is where we’re starting the year.
You get some folk with “Echo” and a pinch of Country with “Trophy Song,” but overall Where The Music Goes To Die relies on the melancholy that lives inside a singer-songwriter who likely listens to Dylan on vinyl and has a passion for everything from the ‘60s and ‘70s when it comes to musical formations. I’d be a fool to deny the cheese factor of “Some Corny Love Song (Devotional #1).” I get it, I’m the type of person who loves the idea of love but never realistically believed those sort of situations could happen to me. Alas, here I am with a guy who has me smitten. Anyways, I was falling hard for the ones that had those lines, those prominent lines that shine like “OPEN” signs in the middle of the night. “Devotional #2” and “Where The Music Goes To Die” had them, but it was “A Strange Piece” that took the whole shebang at the end. I’ll put it below because it was so fantastic I can’t bare to stick in amongst other configurations of letters and punctuation.
“If life is just a chain of many failures, then failing will become my highest art.”
Personally I’m at the best place I’ve been in some time. It’s been almost a month without suicidal tendencies and panic attacks are a distant memory. But financially I’m still relating heavily to any song that comes across like “A Strange Piece.” So that’s probably why the end of the record stuck out to me and why it’s the one song I urge everyone to get behind. We’ve been reviewing Matthew Squires and The Learning Disorders for some time but this is the first time I’ve been gushing about a record. So do yourself a favor and kick off 2015 with this late 2014 release. Where The Music Goes To Die is out now, so get on it.
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