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A Loser and a Jerk

from Way Out West by KING ROPES

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    Way Out West, King Ropes’ fourth album, is full of open spaces and jagged edges—from “A Loser and a Jerk,” with its brooding feedback moans, to the cathartic opener “Big Man on the TV,” with its mangled arpeggios and visions of a broke rodeo flailing amidst “the great wide open.” Guitars scrape and whine. Amps rumble. Rickety pianos rattle in and out of tune. Like the Treasure State itself, nothing is too refined. Perched uneasily between indie, desert rock, and ragged americana, it’s the band’s finest record yet. At the center of it all is Dave Hollier, a gifted songwriter at the top of his game, surveying a land haunted by doomed relationships and hypocrite ideologues in his odd, quivering voice.

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lyrics

The things that make you better make me worse Take me to the doctor take me to the church Take a 50 from my pocket slip it in your skirt Stand up turn around and walk on out of here
It’s all a bag of lies these things you say you’ve done You’ve gone off somewhere now you’re flying high
You left us in the lurch with all these loser and these jerks I guess we’ll crawl back out of her somehow
Take me down to the doctor take me far away
What the hell is that you’re smelling like since we left L.A. Take it outside dig a hole and cover it with dirt
Go on and leave now there’s no need to say goodbye
If you’ve got something left to say I wish you’d spit it out
Ain’t no baby jesus here to save you now
And you’ve got somewhere else to go I guess you’d better leave But don’t expect to find me waiting around
The things that make you better make me worse Take me to the doctor take me to the church Take a 50 from my pocket slip it in your skirt Stand up turn around and walk on out of here

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from Way Out West, track released June 11, 2021

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When Dave Hollier spins records at a party, he plays stuff that’s all over the map. The Meters, The Knife, Boston, Bowie, Buck Owens. It could go very wrong. But it doesn’t. Finding the thread that leads from The Cars to The Beastie Boys to Van Halen to Prayers, he tells a long, beautiful, cross-cultural, multi-generational story. Hollier’s band King Ropes is doing much the same thing. ... more

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