Listened: Wednesday December 29
Quiet Is The New Loud is a very important album from my college years. It’s one of those rare albums that less than 30 seconds into my first listen, I was already in love.
KOC is like the modern European version of Simon & Garfunkel. The guitars are lovely, the harmonies beautiful, and the lyrics brilliantly metaphorical.
They’ve never made another album quite like this one. Like a lot of things in life, it’s something I can’t hold in my hand; it slips through my fingers and is gone very quickly.
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