Anti
2005
We're All Gunna Die
About This Album
Danny Cohen's We're All Gunna Die is his second Anti/Epitaph full-length; it picks up where his Dannyland left off. Despite its title, and the fact that in some way or other all these songs are about death, the album is far from depressing. It's full of lilting elegies and paeans to ghosts -- of street corner prophets, spectral poets, visionary artists, and ladies of the street and screen. Cohen's protagonists are, for the most part, marginal persons who deserve better than they got: -- their romantic dreams have been turned to ashes, but, like Job of the Old Testament, they find a kind of beauty there. Dream, nightmare, lullaby, carnival song, doo wop, rhythm and blues, jive, blues, country, 1960s' psych pop, vintage L.A. film score arrangements and angular post-rock, all weave and wind together seamlessly in the backdrop of an urban melange. Cohen's collaborators include Ralph Carney, the late Jimmy Borsdorf, John LaPado, Greg Cohen, Snake How, and Charles Mohnike. The organic, simple base in each tune is stretched to its breaking point by spot-on arrangements that paint, texture (Cohen is a hell of a visual artist) and frame his songs. There's "Cousin Guy" with its early rock & roll street corner vibe that speaks directly to the disintegration of a person who has been ignored, marginalized, and coerced by outside forces until the he breaks and escapes permanently.
Track List (try tracks 1,4,7,8 and 16)

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