We're most likely to be inundated with references to the apocalypse these next couple of months, probably not to the tune of a jolly folky track like 'Seawall' though, a song that describes with incredible detail the end of the world, with a largely indifferent stance to the whole charade. Still, if the world is doomed then we're better off bowing out with a whistle-along acoustic ditty than a load of doom and gloom right? That's what Kasko Lunsford (the alter-ego of Scott Stutzman) thinks anyway, and we're not going to argue. In fact the most jolly of the three songs on 'If This Is The Apocalypse' is 'Seawall', the very song that imagines Armageddon in the most detail.
Things begin to sound a touch more forlorn on the gently picked 'Dust Bowl' which is all about the plant world dying out and the parched ground turning to infertile dust. So it's all merry stuff like that really. The dusty landscape soon becomes subject to a deluge of water in 'Flood', where hurricanes and breakers "come rolling through the alleys and the streets" and the city being "13 feet below the sea". So what was likely written as a slightly tongue-in-cheek dig at the end-times predictors has proved frighteningly prophetic given the events of the past week. Three great little tunes, but let's just hope no more of his predictions come true, eh?
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