I Need The Feeling Of A Perfect Lover

Throw Me The Statue “This Is How We Kiss” – For a lot of people, punk rock is a teenage phase. They may never grow out of it or lose their affection for the music, but it ends up getting tied with teenage feelings, and teenage memories. In the context of Throw Me The Statue’s 00s-indie album, “This Is How We Kiss” uses the genre as something of a flashback device, a nostalgic sound for a nostalgic song. Essentially, the singer is confronting strong, immediate feelings with the benefit of perspective and hindsight. He misses the thrill of naïveté, he laments his emotional clumsiness, but he ultimately sounds secure in his adult self, or at least incapable of regressing too much. He can revisit the feelings, but he can’t recreate them, or hang around them for too long. It’s a bit like revisiting your old school — it seems like a quaint idea in the abstract, but if you do it, you just feel weird and out of place and every room in the building seems smaller than you remember. (Click here to buy it from Amazon.)