Current album obsession: The Book of Broken Glass By Sarah and the safeword
Something totally new and weird that I'm gonna try to do when i have feelings about albums I'm gonna break them down track by track and talk about them
Sarah and the Safe Word is a dark cabaret band from Atlanta Georgia fronted by Sarah Rose. they are currently my favorite band and I wanted to break down this album and talk about it so if what I have to say about it seems interesting please give The Book of Broken Glass a listen
Track one: A Wake, Violet Makes Her Wish
The opener to our album setting the mood with a simple poem
"Several years of sorrow without breathing
Mourn the dead
Lamps are out of midnight oil
Lost lovers and lost friends
Now, the jury's hung
No kingdom come
Sold bones to pay the rent
Let us gather 'round the fire once more and sing
Sing while light is left"
Its simple and sets the mood as our main character violet attends a funeral and starts our story
Track two: Ruby Off The Rails
Track two introduces us to Ruby Violets mother and and delves into a ritual used to summon Something that isn't fully explained delving into the occult and gothic themes of the album
Track Three: Old Lace
Old lace leans heavy into the dark cabaret sound that the band has established in previous albums the song deals with feelings of ego death and the loss of identity.
Track Four: A Little Evil Never Hurt Anyone
The Sluttiest song on this album its dancy its fun and its all about doing things you know you shouldn't. its meaning is in the title and the chorus
"Just do it in anger Just do it for fun A little evil never hurt anyone"
Track Five: No One’s Home
My interpretation of this song is that it delves into Sarah finding out more information about her father learning that he wasn't what he seems that he's something not human and so is she.
Track Six: But Tonight! We Dance! Ft. Dog Park Dissidents
This song is fantastic and Dancy and features queer punk duo Dog Park Dissidents its also in my interpretation of the album when Violet starts to die
Track Seven: Too Dressed Up To Die
THE STRINGS IN THIS SONG!!
the violin work in the song is by far the best part its really all i can gush about
as far as the story of the album goes violet is absolutely dying here
Track Eight: Soldiers Of Rock N’ Roll Ft. Chumbawamba
No really it features Chumbawamba and it fucks it is an amazing song and starts pushing into a heavier sound before the next song does a full Genre switch. Story wise something is absolutely saving Violet here
Track Nine: All The Rage Ft. Jamee Cornelia
Here we have a genre switch to a Nu Metal song and that's not me being discouraging its amazingly done you don't notice that's what happened till the rap breakdown hits but then it hits and its mind blowing
Track Ten: Broken Crowns, Forgotten Pageants
Sarah Rose Flexes everything her voice can do here. this song really Transends influence in my mind it is Sarah rose and nothing else and it is beautiful.
Track Eleven: Sky On Fire
Another beautiful song with fantastic work from the violins
The line in this song that really stands out to me in relation to the story of the album is "But if I ever had a father Then I know his name was John" her grappling with her memory's of her father and finding out what he really was
Track Twelve: A Sleep: The Owl Makes His Offer
We opened with a wake and close with a sleep this is the best song on the album bar none but for it to hit properly you have to listen to the rest of the album all i can say about it is that its possibly the best song I've ever heard and it ends with the same poem that we opened this album with.
Track Thirteen: X
So this song requires some context Sarah Rose is a transgender woman and this song is Violet regretting never coming out to her father as trans and her transitioning "And all that I want is your chance to see tomorrow In a skin that I can live in Or a life that wasn't borrowed" the song is a beautiful way to end the album
and that's the album give it a listen and feel free to rb with your thoughts and opinions
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The whole "heaven is not fit to house a love like you and I" gets a whole lot more profound & heartbreaking when you realise this is Paolo & Francesca telling this to each other as they're being torn apart in the second circle of hell for their lust. Like, this isn't just some poetic declaration of love. This is two people, condemned to be tortured for all of eternity, saying that God could give them the chance to repent over & over & they'd still choose this.
They'd rather choose to go to hell for their sins than enter a loveless heaven.
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This may be my greatest success in the field of mini album art cross stitch (and is definitely my #1 Green Day album). Everything about it makes me happy: the font, the tiny Christian and Gloria, the fact it reminds me to listen to my favorite Green Day album when I see it… I don’t talk about this one enough so now you get to look at it!
Get the pattern here!
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“21st Century Breakdown is sort of a collection of photographs, or ideas, or circumstances that have happened within the past five years. Whether it’s a different crisis or a natural disaster, or a financial breakdown, people losing their homes… revenge or whatever, there’s a lot of personal and political things going on in the record. It goes through a sort of dark tunnel with different themes, to hopefully find some sense of hope at the same time.” – Billie Joe Armstrong
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