Drowning In Hugs

The Dismemberment Plan “No One’s Saying Nothing”

This song has the most provocative opening lines of anything I’ve heard this year: “You hit the space bar enough, cocaine comes out / I really like this computer!” It’s more funny to me because I have a bit of context in my own experience, but also in that I know Travis Morrison has been working for the Huffington Post for years, and I know that the corporate culture there is pretty intense and demanding, to say the very least. The new Dismemberment Plan is pretty much a concept album about working this sort of job, and trying to hold on to some feeling of being a cool, fun person with a life, but slipping further into professionalism and a conventional adult life and being basically okay with it. This song is the best and most effective – partly on a purely melodic level, but also because I really like the way the arrangement is like a weirdly cheerful spin on “Airbag” by Radiohead. From OK Computer to Pretty Good Computer, I guess.

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