We've always had trouble sleeping in haunted houses, but seems like it's no big thang for Mr. Ben Bridwell. Unsurprisingly, the first single from our favorite digicam-dissing, art-auctioning reverb-rockers' Cease To Begin is a dynamically rich, melancholically sound anthem with a riff-tastic guitar exeunt. Very pretty, florid stuff. (If ya didn't hear yet, grab a free MP3 at BOH's MySpace.)Just one complaint: Is itonly us or could you imagine this thing building for another minute or so? Cuts out right before it heads skyward ... Then again, maybe dude is scared of haunted houses, plus all their well-worn metaphorical associations, and wanted to slip out ASAP. Regardless, we're already singing along by heart (emphasis, of course, on heart).
Also, hey, dig the lack of a question mark in the song title! So affirmative, Ben. And, by the by, also dig that spiraling chest flora...
Cease To Begin is out 10/9 on Sub Pop.
