Habeas Corpus, the second album by Living Things, is a slingshot of modern Americana, arching from St. Louis through Chicago, New York City, London and Los Angeles to pierce the international vagabond outpost of Berlin; as seen through the eyes of four political junkies, high on the poet and the layman’s right to intellectual freedom. The themes they cover include life, love, money, religion and war in these turbulent times.
“In some ways I’ve looked at this whole record as a celebration of the uncertain times ahead,” says lead vocalist and lyricist Lillian Berlin. Anthemic, prophetic, bumping and grooving through Habeas Corpus, Living Things have taken their journey from St. Louis, the city where old-timers pick out the blues on their porches and giant signs proclaim “Guns Save Lives” and “Jesus Saves”, on to new cities and new horizons of the mind. Yet St. Louis and the contorting contradictions that this city wears is never far from their minds, it’s still the homestead to which they continue to sing their own fiery hymns of revolution and revelation.
The scream of four angry young men has been replaced with a record that brands flesh by way of a more elegant, textured fury that enters with jagged edges yet brings curves and love. The lead single “Let It Rain” is the acknowledgment that surrender to acceptance is the road back to strength.
http://www.myspace.com/livingthings
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“In some ways I’ve looked at this whole record as a celebration of the uncertain times ahead,” says lead vocalist and lyricist Lillian Berlin. Anthemic, prophetic, bumping and grooving through Habeas Corpus, Living Things have taken their journey from St. Louis, the city where old-timers pick out the blues on their porches and giant signs proclaim “Guns Save Lives” and “Jesus Saves”, on to new cities and new horizons of the mind. Yet St. Louis and the contorting contradictions that this city wears is never far from their minds, it’s still the homestead to which they continue to sing their own fiery hymns of revolution and revelation.
The scream of four angry young men has been replaced with a record that brands flesh by way of a more elegant, textured fury that enters with jagged edges yet brings curves and love. The lead single “Let It Rain” is the acknowledgment that surrender to acceptance is the road back to strength.
http://www.myspace.com/livingthings
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