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Ferocious Bubbles
11+ albums
birminghamAlabama
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If its true that, as Elvis Costello once famously opined, writing about music is like dancing about architecture then describing the music of Ferocious Bubbles may resemble an arc that begins with Isadora Duncan and ends with Merce Cunningham. Its a music that even at its most spare is beautiful and fluid never afraid of abstraction, incident, or the ability to change. At its essence is a vital buoyancy that, despite singer / songwriter Pete Szelenbaums tendency to stay grounded, pulls everything skyward. There are no fixed points even when things seem irrevocably stuck. There are several songs in the Ferocious Bubbles oeuvre that long for something off in the distance, but never before has the band released an album so occupied with the notion of escape. That being said, one might imagine the Ferocious Bubbles latest album, Save Yourself and Run Away as the soundtrack of the modern dance equivalent of Waiting For Godot. Listen close and youll hear the nervous shuffle that comes before making a move towards the unknown: Ecstasy, fear, calm, darkness, acceptance its all there. But despite the rush of Airport, Skywaves or the soaring title track, the protagonists of Save Yourself and Run Away are on the verge of movement but never quite make a leap Or so our ears tell us: Perhaps its only through that Hopeless sense of hope that only the hopeless would know described to us in Save Yourself and Run Aways meditative centerpiece, St. Jude, that we know there is life after the
