Idiot Heart.

Depois do caos de “Randon Spirit Lover” (quase um apocalispe prog estranhamente palatável) e das canções de amor sombrias que ele reservou para os últimos álbuns do Wolf Parade e do Swan Lake, ninguém esperava (eu pelo menos não) que Spencer Krug fosse escolher sua música mais direta em muito tempo para puxar o novo disco do Sunset Rubdown.

O que não quer dizer que “Idiot Heart” seja parecida com a nova música do Jet, por exemplo. É épica (tem 6 minutos), porque ele é um cara que gosta de coisas épicas. Mas tem guitarras de hard-rock, apelo sentimental bastante direto (é uma outra canção de amor obsessivo), ponte ganchuda, levada de bateria post-punk (refrão de “Transmission”, de novo) e vários quase-refrões cantaroláveis/gritáveis (“Look at you now! Look at you now!” e outros). Com Krug nada é exatamente fácil, embora seja quase sempre brilhante.

(Livio Vilela, Bloody Pop)

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Stay away from open windows and put the telephone down.
Can you run as fast as this house will fall when the alarm bell sounds?
No, I was never much of a dancer but I know enough to know you gotta move, your idiot body around.

And you can’t, can't settle down until the idiot in your blood settles down.

So move around, oh move around, oh move around, oh move around, oh move around, oh move around. Wa-oh!

And if I found you in this city, and called it Paradise
I say, I love you but I hate this city, and I’m no prize.
You want to walk around like you own the joint
The way that Icarus thought he might own the sky.

I said you can’t, can’t settle down,
Until the Icarus in your blood,
In your blood drowns
No you can’t, can’t settle down,
Until the Icarus in your blood,
In your blood drowns

I said, If I was a horse I would throw up the reins if I was you.
Wa-a-a-a-a-a-a-oh!

So, look at you go!
(You were a sorcerer)
Oh, look at you go!
(You were a meteor)
Oh, look at you go!

Oh, look at you go!
(You were a sorcerer)
Oh, look at you go!
(You were a meteor)
Oh, look at you go!

Oh, look at you go!
(You were a sorcerer)
Oh, look at you go!
(You were a meteor)
Oh, look at you go-o-o-o!

Oh, look at you go!
(You were a sorcerer
you were a meteor)
and, look at you go!

And you know a heart, and you know a heart, and you know a heart,
And you know a heart, and you know a heart, and you know a heart,
And you know a heart, and you know a heart, and you know a heart
And you know a heart, and you know a heart, and you know a heart
But it’s an idiot heart.

And you know a heart, and you know a heart, and you know a heart
And you know a heart, and you know a heart, and you know a heart
And you know a heart.

But you can’t, can’t settle down, down, down Ba-da-da-da-da-ba-da-da-ba-ba
But you can’t, can’t settle down, down, down Ba-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da

So just move around, move around, move around, move around.
Move around. Move around. Move around. Move around.

I hope that you die in a decent pair of shoes
You got a lot more walking to do where you’re going to.

I hope that you die in a decent pair of shoes
You got a lot more walking to do where you’re going to.

(Idiot Heart, Sunset Rubdown)