THE NATIONAL LIGHTS - The Dead Will Walk, Dear reviews
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| Blogcritics |
Lyrics: Reflections on the murder of a lover filled with lots of blood, bones and burial imagery. Jacob Thomas Berns’ ability to sing such sadistic words in tender and relaxed tones can be comical…like a slasher movie’s tongue-in-cheek gore. The music is happy enough and the storytelling is poetic enough, however, that you have to really pay attention to pick up on the gruesome subtext on The Dead Will Walk, Dear....full text |
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| Silent Urpoar |
| Inspired by an '80s horror film with a similar name, The Dead Will Walk, Dear is a bold debut from Richmond, VA act The National Lights. A song-by-song account of a lover driven to the brink (and beyond) of murder, the album's gothic tale is dark as night. As morbid as the story is, it’s delivered by the delicate voice of singer/songwriter Jacob Thomas Berns, which sounds initially out-of-place and overly isolated but becomes quite captivating. ...full text |
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| DustedMagazine |
| The National Lights makes achingly pretty, traditionally-rooted songs that slip by you effortlessly the first couple of times you listen to The Dead Will Walk, Dear. The buoyant guitar work, laced occasionally with banjo and pedal steel, the whispery soft harmonized vocals – it all conspires to relax you, lull you, in a way that only preternaturally pretty music can. ...full text |
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