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Memoirs Of An Imaginary Friend

from The Beauty Of Our Youth by soup

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"As the central track on The Beauty of Our Youth, "Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend" is also the most climactic. Not only is the string quartet replaced by an entire orchestra for this 6:00-minute piece, but its central theme – established in the opening climb by Viken on the grand piano – is also one of the strongest melodic compositions on the album. Cellos tremolo beneath the piano, giving rise to the dynamic gain as the song begins to take shape. Viken is joined briefly by a female vocalist (Synne Øverland Knudsen, who lends her voice to other tracks on the album as well), together contemplating the life and pursuits of this not-quite real persona who – at one point – held so much significance to the child's heart. It's not unlike the sending of a loved one or the exorcising of a ghost. At "Memoir's" halfway point, everything fades, leaving behind only an echoing piano to mumble the theme, and then is rejoined by violins, buoyed by dirty, echoing guitar and the tremolo support of the orchestra." -Justin Carlton

See more at: www.tollbooth.org/index.php/past-issues/past-music-reviews/1210-soup-the-beauty-of-our-youth#sthash.ZnqgSzQG.dpuf

lyrics

How does it feel? To be overseas with nothing at all but your changes now that you're real and safe and inside? I know you now. No-one between us, it's just you and me, and the hows and whens that you gave us in your retreat. Go to the light. Oceans and tears and the borrowed excuse when you're drifting on with your colourless painting inside. I know you now; Fearless and bald as your changes begin to take hold of you and betray you and everyone else. Go to the light! my little friend there is nothing at all that can take you now that you're followed by everyones eyes. Lights on you now! This ocean is clean, there is nothing at all that can change you now that the trees are all you can see. There are still changes and holy grounds, but the feeling is all you can see. But it feels like you now; we're gone, and fearless -for ever in your faith.

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from The Beauty Of Our Youth, released September 27, 2013
Trondheim Orkesterforening conducted by Tormod Knapp. Additional vocals by Synne Øverland Knudsen.

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soup Trondheim, Norway

The pioneering alternative rock group Soup have been hailed for both their albums and their live shows since 2005, and have step by step started to be recognized for their genre-breaking music.
Linked to Motorpsycho by guitarist Hans Magnus "Snah" Ryan, and to Steven Vilson by graphic wizzard Lasse Hoile,
There is a strong sense of dynamics and melancholy in the band's backbone. ... more

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