So I've come to realize that I absolutely detest people who smash guitars on stage. I caught a repeat of the Arcade Fire's performance on SNL and after an exceedingly lackluster performance of Intervention I think, Win broke his guitar like he was Hendrix. It's become such a caricature of rock posturing, and to see this token from a band that is used to only breaking hipsters' hearts was indicative of just what I don't like about Neon Bible. I have nothing wrong with being ambitious, but even George W. Bush wouldn't support the execution.
So here are a couple albums you should listen to instead of Neon Bible (and both from Scandinavians):
Sondre Lerche: Phantom Punch - I was somewhat disheartened with Lerche's last album, the obsessively smooth Duper Sessions, and it seemed to signal a distilling of the worst aspects of Two Way Monologue. He had never been Mr. Testosterone, but he was clever and poppy and I liked that. Phantom Punch isn't exactly a return, but it has guitars and a sense of purpose. When it was posted on his website that this would be a "rock album", I figured it would either be an atrocious mangled loud affair or a repeat of REM's Around the Sun (wasn't that supposed to be a "rock album"?). But this is everything those two options aren't.
Hello Saferide: Introducing... - This was released a while ago elsewhere, but I expect great things from the sweetly voiced Annika Norlin and she seems to enjoy nothing more than putting her slightly off kilter thoughts into a rhyme scheme. She sings love songs hoping people get sick so she can nurse them back to health and intones "Damn, I wish you were a lesbian" to her best friend.
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