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Genre: alt rock Rating: 
Check Out: “Candleburn,” “When Morning Comes,” and “Nashville Skyline” |
Do you remember that song from 1995 called Counting Blue Cars? It had the lyrics tell me all your thoughts on God/ 'cause I would really like to meet her/ and ask her why we're who we are. Yep, that was Dishwalla. Fast forward to 2002, and they released a less-known album called Opaline.
I suppose you could say that this album was written as they were recovering from their five minutes of fame and attempting to keep that publicity going, yet the lengths that they were going to caused them to question themselves. Nashville Skyline is especially telling; the lines don't go on looking for the love/ in the illusion of it all/ the answer's in the dream betray the kind of pain they must of gone through to reach that level of maturity. I'm sorry they went through it, but their disillusionment makes one of the best alt rock albums I've heard in my lifetime.
