samuel stubblefield

Sink or Swim We’ll Go Together is a solo work in name only, as it mines the talents of a number of interesting contributors. You’ll likely recognize the dulcet tones of Jen Wood (“Butterfly Wings”) from The Postal Service’s “Such Great Heights,” and former 90 Lb. Wuss frontman Jeff Suffering punks up pseudo title track “Far Too Far.” Still, the most interesting aspect of this album is that Andy’s own son Julian both provides some percussion and co-wrote most of the songs “in one way or another.”

Four-year-old Julian has leukemia, and Sink or Swim We’ll Go Together is an album very much about a family’s struggle to fight the disease while keeping its own collective spirit intact. It’s an amazingly personal album, and from the opening strains of the energetic “Running and Jumping” to the starkly mechanical “Counts,” the haunting “Our Bodies Are Fragile” to anthemic closer “Dancing Shadows,” it’s an amazingly poignant musical study of struggle and hardship and, in spite of it all, hope.

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2011-12-22

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neil crofts: christmas future.

“The wise people realised that relationships are the key to a sustainable and peaceful future, and that the only relationships that are sustained with people, places, activities or things are the ones with love involved. Other relationships are purely transactional and in such relationships, we are only as good as our last performance. The wise people realised we need irrational things like trust, loyalty, empathy and care and that those things cannot exist in transactional relationships, so they gave the gift of love to all of the children.”

-neil crofts 2011-12-19 03:32:38-05 from mallorca, es.