No need for ambulance
Mike Desjardin
Issue date: 3/27/08 Section: Arts and Entertainment
"You'd like to believe that all that love is free/Someone like you will never be lonely or get the blues/But darlin' it's not true."
The lightheartedness of the music in "Anecdote" is hardly jarring when accompanying the darker lyrics. Instead, the song has a strange familiarity that creeps along quietly and infectiously hooking you into its charm. Despite the band's cheery simplicity, their history is slightly less confusing than trying to classify Ambulance LTD's sound.
Most of the band's music is similar in structure to "Anecdote." The tracks are rarely dark, and even the ones that touch on heartache do so with stoicism, as if to dismiss the negativity that sparked the writing of the song in the first place. Their style is eclectic, and the only thing that ties one grunge rock anthem to another poppy, dreamlike farce is the peppy observance present in the lyrics. Because the Ambulance LTD's sound changes more often than the members of the band, a trip to the Middle East on April 2 may prove to be an enlightening experience.
The lightheartedness of the music in "Anecdote" is hardly jarring when accompanying the darker lyrics. Instead, the song has a strange familiarity that creeps along quietly and infectiously hooking you into its charm. Despite the band's cheery simplicity, their history is slightly less confusing than trying to classify Ambulance LTD's sound.
Most of the band's music is similar in structure to "Anecdote." The tracks are rarely dark, and even the ones that touch on heartache do so with stoicism, as if to dismiss the negativity that sparked the writing of the song in the first place. Their style is eclectic, and the only thing that ties one grunge rock anthem to another poppy, dreamlike farce is the peppy observance present in the lyrics. Because the Ambulance LTD's sound changes more often than the members of the band, a trip to the Middle East on April 2 may prove to be an enlightening experience.
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