Lately

Two Hundred Twenty-Eight

Artist - The Helio Sequence
Album - Keep Your Eyes Ahead
Released - 2008
Label - Sub Pop
Genre - Indie Rock

Tracks:
Lately
Can't Say No
The Captive Mind
You Can Come to Me
Shed Your Love
Keep Your Eyes Ahead
Back to This
Hallelujah
Broken Afternoon
No Regrets

Keep Your Eyes Ahead is the fourth album by Portland Indie Rockers The Helio Sequence and I just read a fun little fact about a song on this record.  You Can Come To Me samples sound effects from Super Mario Bros. 3.  Ahhh yes, now I'm going to need to pay closer attention to that song the next time I listen to it.  For the most part, this album is great, but I think Lately is one of my favorites, even though it's mainly about a break up.  Another band that I got to see live at Fun Fun Fun Fest this past November, this duo can definitely put on a great show.  It amazes me how two people can put on such a great live performance without the help of a bass and any other instrument.  Much respect to two piece bands that can rock out live.  Anyway, here is a fascinating blurb from their record:

A future that was and is

so seemingly within each,

but out of hand still.

Potential always betrayed.

A self-made foreign self-spite.

That which I know and have known

and have no reason to unlearn,

no matter the wise words

of friends or philosophers.

From the suburbs, where I find

living without a center a possible reality,

but a banal tragedy,

to the city, where I find

no center by an octopus of too many worlds,

many possible realities,

and a banal tragedy still.

And at last, a hole in a sock so big

that daring means creating newness

in negative space, a transplant,

a lattice-worked piece of sustenance

on the heel where it is walked on the most.

Chrzin, CZ 1/1/05

Enjoy!