![]() ![]() Its references to war, let alone “The Great War” specifically, are general, a humanistic emphasis on what drives us to do the things we do, how we remember, and how we’re remembered.īehind The Black Flight is a sentiment Parker shared about the album: “I hope that humanity someday finds a way to free itself from the seemingly endless impulse to kill each other.” On opener “Don’t Let Them Get You Down”, he explores what compels people to join war: “I’m heading for the action / I’m looking for a fight / I need my satisfaction / Want to shoot out all their lights.” The 10-plus-minute title track, built around intense strums and arpeggiated plucks, sports uneven structures and varying levels of repetition and intensity, as if to mirror the simultaneous predictability and unpredictability of violence. Recorded as minimally as it was written, the acoustic guitar record is inspired by his great uncle Leslie, a fighter pilot in WWI who died during a dogfight. Parker’s latest album The Black Flight, released through his own label Recorded & Freed, is his most straightforward, yet personal album. ![]() It’s the latter he’s become known for, save for a short stint in the now defunct noise rockers Space Needle and a couple collaborations with Jay Farrar. Over the past few decades, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Anders Parker has transformed from making 4-track lo-fi fuzz rock (early Varnaline) to troubadour-land.
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