Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson - Buriedfed
Buriedfed is the first track on Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson’s eponymous debut album and it is, as its title rather suggests, a song obsessed by and saturated with death. It begins as a gentle, barely audible guitar strum and a declaration from Robinson (known as MBAR from this point in) that “This is my last song about myself, about my friends / Found something else to sing.”
As the song gradually builds – both in volume and in the layers of instrumentation – each verse tells the story of some poor soul unhappy with life. They all revolve, somehow, around the big sleep, whether it’s a friend who choked to death on alcohol, the alcoholic who shot his wife and dog or the survivor of a murder attempt who is found by police, taken to meet her would-be killer and berates him for failing, because, she says, “I wanted just to die.”
Lyrically, it’s harrowing, spine- and bone-tingling stuff, made all the more moving by the simple, circular, gut-wrenchingly beautiful and haunting tune that builds up and up and up, until you’re listening to what becomes a cacophony of tragedy, a paean to death and the unknowns that follow it. Yet, depressing as that sounds – and it is, without a doubt, a very sad song – there’s a sense of hope hidden deep underground, that, amidst all these death, life nevertheless goes on.
“Everyone will be there at the burial in your head,” MBAR sings, and his Brooklyn drawl sounds almost happy. “A tear or two they’ll shed, then they’ll go, leave you in your hole and find someone else instead. Make someone else feel dead instead.” Sure, it’s a bleak kind of hope, but that’s better than nothing, right?
Mischa Pearlman
2:51 PM | 21/04/2009
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