What makes John Vanderslice perhaps the most consistently compelling songwriter on the indie scene is the critical fecundity of his text. Over the course of his six albums, he’s shown a nearly peerless skill for subverting conventions of narrative voice, thereby allowing himself room to craft ambitious fictions that resist comparisons to many of even his most talented contemporaries’ variations on confessional singer-songwriter tropes. And because his songs typically trade in modern feelings of disconnection, it isn’t a matter of a steely denial of self that they make a strict autobiographical reading all but impossible.

Instead, that’s structurally right for the material and only gives the active listener even greater interpretive leeway. It isn’t as simple as relating to an image or an expressed emotion in one of Vanderslice’s songs, it’s that those images and emotional experiences are a point-of-entry to engage narratives that are dense and provocative to an almost literary degree.

That works to Vanderslice’s advantage on his latest album, Emerald City, much as it did on its predecessor, 2005’s exceptional. Owner Manual Velodyne Ct 150 more. If anything, the protagonists here are even twitchier and more paranoid, and they end up even more isolated from the world around them.

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The refrain of “Numbered Lithograph” is simply “I’ve never been lonelier,” repeated at the end of a succession of verses that pull the narrator progressively further into himself until the final verse breaks into the album’s sole use of the third-person voice. That segues into the album’s closing song, the lovely ballad “Central Booking,” which Emerald City‘s press notes fascinatingly single out as being autobiographical. Given that Vanderslice wrote the album while mired in a still-unresolved dispute with U.S. Immigration services over a rejected visa application for his French girlfriend, the imagery of the song (“Held up at Kennedy/Sent back to DeGaulle/Looks like September/Has won once again” is its melancholy closing line) certainly supports that read. Donate Slant is reaching more readers than ever before, but advertising revenue across the Internet is falling fast, hitting independently owned and operated publications like ours the hardest. We’ve watched many of our fellow media sites fall by the way side in recent years, but we’re determined to stick around. We’ve never asked our readers for financial support before, and we’re committed to keeping our content free and accessible—meaning no paywalls or subscription fees.

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