My Politic

Every now and then I will catch myself in a short lived giggle fit about someone’s particular musical taste.

Shame on me I know.

Inevitably they will ask me what dark musical secrets are hiding in my closet. I will pull out some folky/country/Americana shit and they won’t scold me and usually will agree that it’s awesome.

Why am I so ashamed of this??

It just feels wrong to like something that Tom would enjoy. In my mind I am too hardcore to like this sentimental music that is softer than the top of Joel’s head. That is something I have found solace in since my time with SYFFAL. I can express my dark side and tell you about how much of softy I really am. I can unabashedly bare my soul and get weepy about a band like My Politic.

I acquired this super exxxclusive new album, Anchor, and the first time through it I felt like I was floating. It was like running through a field of tulips and catching an unexpected fence post right in the dick. I didn’t have any expectations going in because this isn’t a band that I had ever listened to but I was still caught off guard.

I listened to it all the way through five times in a row.

The entire record is as simple as it is beautiful. It is the musical equivalent of your mom rubbing your back until you fall asleep. Soothing. Kicking off with “Before It’s Too Late” you get reminded that the world is a big place and there could be love out there anywhere, not just at the glory hole of your local dive bar. This is a concept I have always believed in and tried to stress to my friends.

You have to look beyond the bus stop skanks and the one sort of hot girl that you work with. Don’t settle bros.

As the album progresses it travels through the phases of a love story. On the track “Heartless” My Politic delves deeper into the turmoil that comes with a relationship. With lyrics like, “I’m all yours, you’re not quite mine” the listener can sense that maybe the bae ain’t feeling you.

My favorite song on the album is “Ain’t No Saint,” which hits you with the lyric “I ain’t no saint ‘cause sinnin’s easy, it’s easier to do.” When I first heard that shit I caught chills to the gills. This record is full of moments that make you feel like you are drinking sweet tea on a porch swing while watching the sunset over a wheat field.

Just as you start to get over that track you get mollywhopped with the track “Civil War Song.” This is a heart breaking love song wrapped in a Civil War metaphor. It was strong in the running for my favorite song on the record. It is like an audible three minute movie that makes Gone With The Wind look like The Love Guru.

The album finishes out with the title track. Bros, there’s gonna be an Anchor, because let’s face it sometimes life can be a dick kicker.