![]() “The coziness of this recording comes from Matthew, Noah and I doing this song live in the same room, something we don’t really find ourselves doing too often. Those two bands were definitely a goalpost when we were recording this song and when I mixed it later on.” “I’ve really come to cherish the balance of highly witty and bluntly sincere lyricism of John Prine and David Berman over the last couple years, so I tried to channel them in this song and I honestly strive for that in all the songs I write,” Santora told Wormbrain.“As far as the music goes, I absolutely love how cozy Yo La Tengo can get with their softer stuff and how all of Twain’s music sounds like it’s done to a tape machine with extreme care for the ambience of the recording. We really leaned into it by adding sleigh bells and glockenspiel, but my goal is for someone to find themselves enjoying it over the summer and not thinking too much about the setting.”Īccording to Laybrum labs, the formula for “Chop a Tree” is equal parts Prine, Berman, Tengo, and Twain. I wanted there to be really romantic elements on ‘Chop a Tree’ so I started off each line with very sweet things one would wish to do with their significant other and always end the line with something a little more realistic and humbling. “I actually wrote it just as an exercise in writing love songs. My extended family and I used to drive out to rural New Jersey to chop down our own trees every year, I remember Baileys always being around the house during the holidays and I have definitely stepped on light bulb strands while decorating the tree.” The single is available to W.W readers to listen to a day early alongside a music video full of festive family footage, plucked straight from Santora’s grandparents’ Super 8 memories. “ However, there are some genuine memories in this song. “There’s nothing really too personal about this song on the surface,” Santora shared on the seasonally spiced story behind the single’s lyrics. The American literary theorist Susan Sontag called A Book of Memories "the greatest novel written in our time, and one of the great books of the century.“The song will probably be most enjoyed around Christmas time, but it’s just a love song at heart.” Wormbrain chatted with Andrew Santora of Philadelphia, PA project Laybrum ahead of their next single, a one-off holiday hit called “ Chop a Tree ” being released this weekend. Still, these are minor flaws in a work that offers a lot of incidental as well as major pleasures: quirky chapter titles, in the manner of Robert Musil ("A Telegram Arrives" and "Slowly the Pain Returned") an astonishing scene in which two boys help a sow deliver her litter a rare honesty about the conflicts of homosexual romance and the colloquial freshness of the language." has accomplished a remarkably interesting feat: he has transposed the novel of consciousness to the Socialist universe, and closed the gap between prewar modernism (inflected here by post-modern psychoanalysis) and Eastern Europe." Hoffman wrote that the novel has a style of details in "magnified, hot close-up", and that "Longueurs can have their plaisirs, as we know from Proust but some passages in A Book of Memories are drawn out to the point of tedium or silliness, and the novel within the novel is marred by occasional affectation. She wrote that "in A Book of Memories, Peter Nadas. Under the headline "The Soul of Proust Under Socialism", Eva Hoffman reviewed the book for The New York Times. The novel won the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger in 1998. The narrative follows a Hungarian novelist involved in a romantic triangle in East Berlin interwoven with the main story are sections of a novel the main character is writing, about a German novelist at the turn of the century.Īn English translation by Ivan Sanders and Imre Goldstein was published in 1997 through Farrar, Straus and Giroux. A Book of Memories ( Hungarian: Emlékiratok könyve) is a 1986 novel by the Hungarian writer Péter Nádas.
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