Art Of Fighting
Runaways
11 Track, LP (2007, Remote Control)
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It’s a mighty manipulative power Art of Fighting wield – dragging audiences in, pushing them to the tearful corners of their past, plucking at feelings all-but-forgotten. On Runaways, the Melbourne four-piece drag, push and pluck with all the downcast glory of their past two albums. It’s a closer affair though – they’re still reaching for the skies while burdened with their lyrically catalogued melancholy, but they’re more naked now; there’s less hiding behind reverb and less jangle.
The crystalline clarity of the recording remains, although the textures are richer – the rimshots of ‘Distance as Virtue’ cut though the mix of muted guitars and walking bass, the piano of ‘Ride After Ride’ echoes Nick Cave. It’s a swooning disc, graceful in the rising and falling of its measured tales of heartbreak and escape. Melancholics, the theories tell us, love to wear their hurt on their lapels, drinking in the attention, shunning the paths out. Art of Fighting are our reigning royals of melancholy; pulsing with sadness, forever mining their tear-lined furrow, describing the aches, exhaling heartbreak with every forlorn sigh.
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