One day I think I was 10
Playing with my GI Joes again
Suddenly felt lame
I guess I grew up that day
Depressed Starting to decay
Weird waves of shame
Have you screwed up so much
You can't unscrew it?
Do you have principles
Or do you just do shit?
When your thoughts run away
Then you must stop them
There are so many ways
To be rotten
Funny Just how much I've spent
Money It has always meant
Too much to me
Crowing How should one behave?
Knowing Others are enslaved
You see through me
When kindness feels too hard
You must force it
We're forever shovelling
Ever more shit
When your thoughts run away
Then you must stop them
We just wilt away
Become rotten
What's the right response
When others are worse off than you
How can you be happy
with how little you do?
Who can make their peace
With so much goddamn misery
Who are you looking at?
Are you talking to me?
It's the essence of TMJ to follow up a smart song about the need to forge new memories with a killer that grooves on everything great and awful about the 1970s. Brash, confident, and deeply pleasurable -- and its vibe is punctured by the new old b-side's warning "living backwards in time/losing your mind." As always, TMJ has it all ways, beautifully. Alan S
Smooth, sophisticated pop with neoclassical flourishes from the Berlin-based duo of Fabian Till and Birk Buttcherey. Bandcamp New & Notable May 2, 2024
The experimental rock band's new record is as melodic and inventive as ever, but now with an even more honed sense of play. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 27, 2024