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 The
November Diaries, released May 7, 2002 through M
Records, falls loosely into the same category as Duncan
Sheik's Phantom Moon and The Innocence Mission's Small
Planes. Musically, Its arrangements are spare ("Story
Of My Life," "Someday".) Even the more up-tempo
songs ("Old Blue Suit," "Empty Space")
sound more live than layered. Lyrically, the album is concerned
with things that might have been, the struggle over whether
to hold on or to let go. It comes to various conclusions,
all of which are simultaneously valid, none of which offer
any ultimate solution. TND is a dense, difficult
record. Listening to it, you will find yourself caught
in a snow of leaves, staring through the window of a train,
crossing a street, sitting on a park bench, wandering a
deserted theater, standing on a doorstep, running down
the stairs…
weaklazyliar
struggled to finish TND. The songs pushed them, musically,
into places they had never dreamed of visiting. Shifting time
signatures. Arrangements that required the parts to be whittled
down to an arpeggio here, a single note there. There were days
when the band was sure this record would never be made. The
fact that it did ultimately get put down on tape is a testament
to the band's sheer force of will, and—once they found him—to Rob
Del Bueno's supportive, "no problems, only solutions," attitude
in the recording studio. Now that the record has been flung
out into the world, weaklazyliar find themselves equally proud
of it, and baffled by it. They consider it very different from
anything else out right now, and they are curious to see what
becomes of it.
weaklazyliar's
music has been featured in the WB Show "Felicity," the
NBC Saturday Morning show "Just Deal," the Lion's
Gate-distributed movie "100 Girls," and-most recently-the
CBS show "The Education Of Max Bickford."
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