7/24/2023 0 Comments No intermission meaning“There Will Be No Intermission” has challenged me to contemplate some pretty heavy things in my life. It’s like Amanda Palmer performed open-heart surgery on every emotion I’ve got. Such is the case with “There Will Be No Intermission.” It has turned me inside-out. Art can do a real knife-twisting number on you if you let it. It can stir shit up for you in a way that you never knew was possible. Sometimes you’re ready for this and sometimes you’re not and you have to kind of take shelter and hide from its impact. That’s the thing about art, sometimes it’s like being struck by lightning and it changes you. I hear the songs in my head even when I’m not listening to it. Paraphrasing my own comment that I made on Palmer’s Patreon page (I’ve been proud Patron of hers since 2017), I feel spellbound, hypnotized and pretty obsessed with “There Will Be No Intermission.” I’ve had it since February 9 and as I figure out what I want to say about it I can tell you -and I’m not making this up – that I’ve easily listened to the entire album (all 74 minutes) at least 50 times. It’s as political a record as it is personal.“The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.”Īmanda Palmer’s latest album “There Will Be No Intermission” comes out on March 8 which coincides, by design, with International Women’s Day. There Will Be No Intermission is a work of art. ![]() It’s an exercise in survival and Amanda Palmer is an artist who is dedicated to doing what she’s on this earth to do. There Will Be No Intermission is an album that needs to be taken in, in full. Just like life, the spaces in the inbetween are just as full.Ĭongleton’s influence can also fully be heard throughout a personal favourite being the sword sounds in “Machete”. Tracks such as “You Know the Statistics” and “Life’s Such a Bitch Isn’t It” truly provide no intermission to the piece. Produced by John Congleton, the album’s 10 tracks are spliced with short instrumentals composed by longtime collaborator, Jherek Bischoff. There Will Be No Intermission is about the lost and for the living. ![]() There Will Be No Intermission openly dances with death (“The Thing About Things”, “Bigger on the Inside”), abortion (“Voicemail for Jill”), love (“Machete”, “Judy Blume”) and satirical truths (“A Mother’s Confession”). The lyrical content ebbs and flows from positive to negative to scared to a deep inhale of good energy. This is a record with the markings of the innermost thoughts many of us keep to ourselves. It’s a crucial, brutal, honest album on which Palmer faces off against all that’s going on in the world as well as all that dwells inside of her. In the UK, our leftist political parties are falling apart as the country is carelessly torn from the EU in the States, admitted sexual predator Donald f***ing Trump sits at the helm of the highest ship in the fleet. Combining songs written over the last six years for Patreon and new, this record reflects the times in which we live. Life provides no breaks to any of us.īy all means, There Will Be No Intermission is Palmer's chef d'œuvre. ![]() I thought, as Amanda Palmer sang, "I think it's funny that he asked me/ cos I don't feel like a fighter lately/ I am too unhappy", she's right. The irony of this is not lost on me: As I sat to translate my notes to sentences, “Bigger on the Inside” piano-plucking through my headphones, I was faced with unsolicited advances in a park.
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