NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at for further information. THE MILK CARTON KIDS: (Singing) And I betrayed, rescued by the Milky Way.Ĭopyright © 2015 NPR. SIEGEL: The album by The Milk Carton Kids is "Monterey." Our reviewer is Tom Moon. THE MILK CARTON KIDS: (Singing) I can see the North Star from this bed. But when these songs work, they evoke late-night journeys on deserted roads, and that might be the best way to encounter them. Sometimes the duo gets bogged down with all the looking inward. MOON: The new album focuses on the part of the road trip when the wind dies down, the rush of the escape fades and there's time for introspection. And to love another helplessly so breathing feels like putting out a fire. And I long to hear the melody that one time played inside my mind. Severing the ties and trembling, losing all the voices in the wind. THE MILK CARTON KIDS: (Singing) All this time I lived inside a memory, daylight creeping in through a crack in the weathered seam. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "SECRETS OF THE STARS") The result is music that's more open and alive than anything The Milk Carton Kids have done so far. Then at the tour's end, they spent a week recording and mixing at a church in Nashville to take advantage of the natural reverb in the vast space. The duo arranged to show up early to some theaters and captured songs on a laptop. It was written and recorded while The Milk Carton Kids were touring last spring. MOON: This album is a travelogue in every sense. Tell me whatever became of what I left behind. THE MILK CARTON KIDS: (Singing) To all the dreams that I had in mind, come back to me by next year this time. Many of these songs explore the feeling of disconnectedness, of being physically in one place while yearning for another. MOON: The Milk Carton Kids constantly get compared to Simon & Garfunkel because of those serene two-part harmonies and also the contemplative zen-riddle nature of the lyrics. Everywhere we go we are the child of where we came. Changing all the faces, saving all the names. THE MILK CARTON KIDS: (Singing) The city of our lady, queen of all the angels, lingers in the ringing of the iron mission bells. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "THE CITY OF OUR LADY") With the hushed, questioning songs of "Monterey," The Milk Carton Kids aim to contribute to this canon. Every songwriter's got at least a few tunes that immortalize rootlessness and restlessness, that urge for going. TOM MOON, BYLINE: At this point, pop music might have reached road song overload. It's called "Monterey," and Tom Moon has our review. They're an indie-folk duo with a new album full of songs about being on the move. The Milk Carton Kids want to be a part of your road journeys this summer.
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