JEREMY FISHER
Goodbye Blue Monday
Aquarius
· A worthy companion to both dancing and thinking.
I may be a world-weary music writer, but Jeremy Fisher’s third album had me bopping around my kitchen like… OK, not like a teeny-bopper. Maybe like my parents listening to Simon and Garfunkel’s "Cecilia." Fisher and producer Hawksley Workman have created a sound that’s often harmonically and instrumentally similar to that duo’s work (as well as to Steve Earle, Tom Petty, John Cougar Mellencamp and Dan Bern).
Reading Fisher’s lyrics, though, you wouldn’t expect to be leaping around with abandon. While there are songs just about guys ’n’ gals – like the upbeat shuffle "Sula" and the sexy "Remind Me" – the catchy opener "Scar That Never Heals" boasts the chorus "She runs guns/ Everyone wants guns." The even catchier "American Girls" has Fisher telling his female admirers "I’m naked on a leash" – a hint of Abu Ghraib, perhaps? And in the ripped-from-the-headlines "Lay Down (Ballad of Rigoberto Alpizar)" and the delicate-yet-pointed "Fall for Anything," Fisher’s straight up about his concerns for the state of the world.
Grooving to thinking-folks’ music – that’s OK, right? Right?
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