Assembly of Dust

You know, I like Assembly of Dust. Maybe a little too...earnest, while at the same time a bit prone to glib consonance like “A swerving nerve that came to serve you.” But they’ve got a nice warm sound, and some of the songwriting is pretty good.

But, really, you’re doing a New Year’s Eve show, you count down to midnight, and then you break into “Champagne Supernova”? Even if this band did irony, which I think that the guy who sings “Behold before you stands a man, I wanna live my life and find a wife so kind” doesn’t really do, there exist none of our infinite number of parallel universes in which playing “Champagne Supernova” is even funny. It’s just terrible. Why would you do that, when your mother has worked so hard? Just hang up your rock-and-roll underwear and scurry away into the night. I mean, really.