The song’s new, but the band sure isn’t. In fact, when R.E.M. called it a day a few weeks ago, it was really just the beginning of the end, and in between those comes the release of “Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage: 1982 - 2011,” a career-spanning, 40-song retrospective.
“We All Go Back to Where We Belong” is one of the album’s three new songs, and it’s so important that it gets two (!) weird, arty, overexposed, but nonetheless charming videos to go along with it. First up is my personally preferred version, which features Mary Jane Watson Kirsten Dunst who does about 98 percent of the acting here with her lips.
Next is acclaimed poet and activist John Giorno, who appears to suffer
separate occurrences of minor brain damage throughout the video, which
is lit and arranged exactly the same as Dunst’s. Weird. Good thing the
song’s as pretty as anything the band’s ever recorded. The line about
“tasting the ocean on your skin” really gets me. Watch both below:
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“I saw them perform for the sixthgrade talent show and I thought, ‘Oh, that’s cool,’ and I liked them and they sounded really good,” Castelli said. “I talked to some of the guys who were in the band, and I tried out and made it.”.
Country Louis Fowler
Sincerity is nearly dead in songwriting. The image of the
earnest singer with eyes tightly shut and a crack in his voice as he
plunges to emotional depths has become a joke.
Indie Zach Hale
If you were to peruse the “About” section of IndianGiver’s Facebook page, you’ll notice how the instruments attributed to each of the Oklahoma City band’s five members are described with downright flippancy: Dylan Jordan plays “sticks & animal skins,” while Jazzton Rodriguez earns his keep with “shanties & loud noises,” and so on.