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Camper
Van Landingham
in Puncture
Harvester's
Camper Van Landingham (Lather)
is a stellar set of songs about weather, abandonment, change, and hope,
delivered with melancholy grace, acid wit, and goofy, bittersweet charm.
They carry you along with sharp-eyed observations and wisecracks borne
on winning melodies, then - before you know it - plunge you into a dark
uncertainty that gives you more than one kind of chill.
"Tumble On" ends with the kind of downer epiphany perfected by fellow
Portlanders Quasi: "If you planned it out/I assure you without doubt/You
will still live and breathe, and later die..." As is a Quasi song, though,
the lyric is turned by its blissy melody into some kind of nirvana;
Harvester deliver more such moments than anyone has a right to expect.
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