As usual, Kirby manipulates various interwar records to fit a cavalcade of emotional states: blissful (B1, E8), tragic (D2, D5), frantic (E1, E6), and just plain horrifying (F3, G1, H1, K1). gjoe52
On the surface one might think this is far more "Sonny's Dreampop" than "Sonny's Blues" but digging even just past the surface you know dreampop is every bit as much melancholy and darkness as it is bliss lightness. Each track can be felt either way or anywhere in those ranges, flowing into each other except for "The Club", which begins far more experimentally before morphing into one of the most blissful (or melancholy) tracks on the album. I must read this short story. Thanks, Matt. Anthony Childs