Every Minute Unrelenting Never Ending

Tall Dwarfs “Nothing’s Going To Happen (Wall of Dwarfs version)” – This is song is a small battle in the war against inertia, but it’s a fight the singer doesn’t really want to win. The words are a self-fulfilling prophecy, and even when he sounds like he’s trapped, panicked, and flailing around, there’s no sense that he’d ever try to break free of this monotonous situation. By the time the full band kicks in, it seems like a full-blown celebration of limitation and futility. It doesn’t even matter what is not going to happen — escape, success, love, sex, an epiphany, a creative breakthrough, the apocalypse. It’s just not going to happen, and that brings a certain safety and peace of mind. (As far as I can tell, pretty much the entire Tall Dwarfs catalog is out of print. That’s kinda ridiculous, don’t you think?)

Elsewhere: Marcello Carlin wrote a terrific review of James Rabbit’s album Coloratura. Seriously, you should get a copy.