Strange textures serve whimsical daydreams and dark confessions in these bands, all of which take moody rock beyond its usual frames.
There is minimal dancing at the party, which has been negligibly choreographed by Joey McKneely, but there are lots of dark confessions for the wee small hours, ranging from standard-issue fears of soullessness to racial hatred.
Dangerous, and Back Released last winter to good reviews but an underwhelming public response, George Clooney's dark comedy "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" is returning to two screens this week: the Union Square in New York and the Arclight in Los Angeles.
People were soon stepping forward with their deepest darkest indie confessions, from the laconic ("Was in the coral #indieamnesty" - @bryderjones) to the iconic ("Got Kung-fu kicked down some stairs by Pete Doherty and Klaxons went to look for him to beat him up for me #indieamnesty" – @grimmers) to the tectonic ("I married Jeremy Wamsley #indieamnesty" – @sankles).
It seems a confession of dark urges, a revelation of something violent in art itself.
Choosing not to dwell on the dark implications of this confession, I instead scrutinized the remaining letters.
2. FIONA APPLE "The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do" (Epic) Fiona Apple's fourth studio album teeters, moment to moment, between obsessive confession and dark vaudeville.
She describes herself as "a hooded creature," unseeing, with ears plugged so that she cannot hear the words that stream from her own lips, like a helpless confession, into the dark.
And though it's clear that Roth felt he was liberating himself — the third volume is called "From Bondage" — the narrator also indulges dark, grandiose fears that his confession of sin will contribute to the destruction of the Jews: In other words, in the confusion and alarm in his soul, he feared he was laying a basis for a new Final Solution.
