Musing

Margot & the Nuclear So-and-So's Buzzard The acoustic, back-porch recordings released to YouTube while the band was finishing the record got a lot of people excited, and I was definitely one of them. I was thrilled that they were finally out of the messy situation with Sony/Epic and able to release the album with an honest track listing. But the turnover of band members has taken that defining Margot quality away and left a talented but hardly-remarkable ensemble. It's ironic: in one of the videos mentioned above, they play a slow and haunting version of Will You Love Me Forever? , which ends with Edwards remarking "If I'd have recorded that one like that, it would probably make me some money, maybe." Sadly, he's right. The album version is layered with really average guitar lines and played much faster, which takes away from the yearning tonal quality that the song should have. Again, like the last albums, I'm being really picky. As a whole, th...