{"id":1112,"date":"2014-03-26T11:11:13","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T15:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/?p=1112"},"modified":"2014-04-01T10:04:13","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T14:04:13","slug":"spirits-and-the-melchizedek-children-so-happy-its-sad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/spirits-and-the-melchizedek-children-so-happy-its-sad\/","title":{"rendered":"Spirits and the Melchizedek Children <br>So Happy, It\u2019s Sad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/spirits_and_the_melchizedek_children-so_happy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1115\" alt=\"Spirits and the Melchizedek Children, So Happy, It's Sad\" src=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/spirits_and_the_melchizedek_children-so_happy.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/spirits_and_the_melchizedek_children-so_happy.jpg 250w, https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/spirits_and_the_melchizedek_children-so_happy-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>On their sophomore album, <i>So Happy, It\u2019s Sad<\/i>, Spirits and the Melchizedek Children divine slowburning songs that ooze with the morphic resonance of both lysergic past lives and the band\u2019s Southern heritage. It\u2019s perhaps not unlike My Morning Jacket taken to its most extreme conclusion, but without so much melodrama. Really, though, the band has tapped into something uniquely its own by taking an organic approach to exploring the same nether regions as those foraged by Sigur Ros and Godspeed You Black Emperor.<\/p>\n<p>The album leads off suitably at its most accessible entry point, \u201cSong Bird\u2019s Grave,\u201d a track that is immediate for its propulsive beat and crooned melody, but is no less evocative for it. Like the rest of the record that follows, the song seems comprised of little moments\u2014a guitar divergence, a suspended vocal, a repeated drum shuffle\u2014so that one easily gets lost in its enchanting details. Elsewhere, SATMC stretch out such elements so that there is an almost linear progression to tracks like the eight minute-plus \u201cLullabies for War\u201d and \u201cCopper Feather.\u201d Of course, this would be a big snooze of hippie indulgences were songs like \u201cLost &amp; Found\u201d also not inflected with a great deal of soul, as found in ringleader Jason Elliott\u2019s vocals and the strings of their guest contributors. 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