Okay, I think I need to start admitting that this is my favorite album this year. I keep wanting to back off from it a while so I don't burn it out, but it just keeps drawing me back in. It's reminding me of, well, my experience with the last Wolf Parade album, and I guess I am still not tired of it.

My new favorite moment is the end of "Grey Estates" when the whole band starts dancing in the streets and swinging around light poles. I mean, the whole production transforms into a Musical number. I am positive Spencer lifted that piano line straight out of Newsies. Rock-on!

Also, I have heard several older version of the song "Kissing the Beehive" and I'm so glad they kept working on it. It was always a powerful song, but the version on the album is absolutely bombastic. And I can't think of a more descriptive and triumphant lyric than "Fire in the Hole!" to repeat as the "chorus" of possibly the awesomest rock song of the year. In fact I really wish they had just called the entire album Fire in the Hole, rather than that Mount Zoomer jazz. It speaks much more to their character and asthetic.

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Originally posted by Shadrach:

And I can't think of a more descriptive and triumphant lyric than "Fire in the Hole!" to repeat as the "chorus".

How about "Look out, Geronimo! Let yourself go!" from Mission of Burma's "Let Yourself Go"?

I'm on the fence about "Kissing The Beehive". In some ways it's cool, but it's a little too bombastic. Sort of like "No Cars Go" last year.

I love Bombastic. It's one of my favorite adjective for describing some of my favorite music. Perhaps I have an internal need to feel manly or warrioresque, but I love music that makes me want to run through the forest barefoot. And I completely adore music that makes me feel like I'm charging through a warzone when all I'm doing is driving my car home from work.

"Kissing the Beehive" almost got me pulled over last night actually. I spent 13 hours in the office, and left late so the highway was almost completely empty. So I was flying along at a good 85-90 on a road that is posted as 65, and I didn't even realize it because I was too busy yelling "Fire in the Hole! Fire in the Hole!". And then the car fourty yards in front of me that I was about to scream past turns out to be an unmarked police car and he flips on his lights. Thankfully he crossed the median and chased someone headed in the other direction, but I was a little freaked out for a while. I slowed down and started singing my "Fire in the Hole"s a little quieter.