I love “Hornets, Hornets”, “Cattle and the Creeping Things, “Your Little Hoodrat Friend”, “Banging Camp”, “Stevie Nix”, and “Chicago Seemed Tired Last Night”. The music is riff heavy and completely awesome. The opening track on Separation Sunday is a ridiculously rocking tune called “Hornets, Hornets” and from there the intensity never regresses as Finn tells stories of drug casualties, desperation and lost innocence as kids do their best to get off. Once one listens it’s easy to realize his brilliance is not in how he is saying it, it’s in what he is saying. Singer, Craig Finn, narrates this Twin Cities’ tribute and shows why many critics consider him the best storytelling rocker out there with his direct in-your-ear delivery that forces a listen. Separation Sunday – Separation Sunday was released May 3rd, 2005 and is a light concept album telling the story of Holly (a sometimes addict, prostitute, and born again Catholic), Charlemagne (a pimp), and Gideon (the skinhead). The Hold Steady is led by a thirty-something frontman named Craig Finn who looks like the neighbor down the hall in your building that incessantly plays Thin Lizzy too loud, is always carrying in tallboys of cheap beer, and who smiles far too suspiciously when he sees you. Strange noises come from his place at all hours of the day and instead of being turned away, you want to hang with this guy, as it’s obvious he’s getting his kicks one way or another. That you know for sure. A few years back a good friend was raving about The Hold Steady, a Brooklyn, NY based rock-n-roll band made up primarily of Minneapolis, MN natives who articulate their love of killer parties, getting high, and most of all the Twin Cities in a spoken word sung manner over layered rock-n-roll gold. He said Separation Sunday was one of the best albums of 2005 and who was I to argue, not knowing much of anything about the band? So I took his advice and grabbed the album. That was one hell of a decision.
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