Saturday Morning Soundtrack -- "Twilight Innocence" by Novembers Doom

As you know, our spring rock and roll literature class is over, and we're slowing down a bit for summer in preparation for our upcoming fall course, but that doesn't mean we can't continue listening to and thinking about music. This week in the Saturday Morning Soundtrack series we have Dan Joyce here from the blog Green Chamber Studio to share with us one of his favorite contemporary lullabys.

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Twilight Innocence -- Novembers Doom (2007)

Novembers Doom is a doom metal band hailing from Chicago. With a sound characteristic of European doom/death bands, this American 4-piece blends intense emotion with the heaviness you would expect from a band with such a name. In this song, singer Paul Kuhr applies this emotion with his lyrical prowess and rich voice to a lullaby written for his daughter. Downtuned, distortion-laden riffs are swapped for acoustic guitar and deep, breathy vocals that cocoon the listener in a sweeping soundscape.

You can picture Kuhr sitting by his daughter’s bedside, watching her peacefully sleep, and wishing for her future. He begins in the moment, wondering about the dreams that run through her mind. Soon he turns inward, hoping that his daughter will grow to see how much he cares for her. He bares his personal insecurity with both pride and trepidation, “Your dreams inspire me / To be the best man I can be / To never let you down / And make you proud of me.” In this life, we can hope for the love and support of our friends and family and pray that our actions somehow maintain justification for that unconditional emotion. In this fear and hope, the sum of our lives is laid out, supported delicately by in the arms of this gentle giant called Novembers Doom.

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