“Shoot the messenger if you don’t want to hear the news
Stay away from him if you don’t wanna catch the blues
Nonsense, too intense
Cover up your eyes
Never look in the book
The cover will suffice
Don’t glow, don’t shine, it’s a sin
Mockingbird, never heard”
In this day and age of 24/7 media messaging and psychic overload, it is easy to understand the vaguely psychotic impulse to “shoot” anyone with a message you do not want to hear. I can get that way sometimes regarding everyone yapping at me about how they want to make my life better by changing the way I think along with my behavior. ‘Blackhole’ is where I have to jump back from the precipice a little. It is a deep dark though melodic lament that has it all laid out in a 21st Century version of ” Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned”.
“I’ve fallen into a black hole
Looked like your heart
Felt like my soul
Now I’ve got nowhere to go
From this side out looks like the end of the world
Why’d you have to roll over me that way
You mowed me like a wheat field on a patent black tractor
With your back-ho jeering me from back at the farmhouse
You got your baby cake”
The great thing about it though is the taught driving drum and guitar work that has an almost new wave sound to it. ‘Mona Lisa In A Comic Book’ keeps things moving in a good direction. The production and musicality of this CD shine on this track and a couple of other ones particularly. The title track, ‘Thatched Roof and Glass House’, also keeps the listener's interest. The most affecting song for me was the last one, ‘Reconsider Me’. Every human being alive has that one love wherein their mind, and regardless of circumstance, they’d come running.
“You’re all alone and you need someone
Call me up and I’ll come running
Reconsider me, reconsider me
If it’s still the past that makes you doubt
well darlin’ that was then and this is now
Reconsider me, reconsider me”
It can sound foolish and pathetic but to the ones who feel love, it sounds like a strong honest and humble response to one of the universally cruel elements of life when you are born in this world. Alpha Cat is a strong artist and her music and band reflect that through the 7 offerings here on this ‘Thatched Roof and Glass House’ album.
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