About Loose Fur's new album Born Again in the USA:
So on "The Ruling Class," which is the album's best song, Jeff Tweedy sings about Jesus returning - the Second Coming. And one of the lines is, "Honey he's back from LA," which I never gave particular thought to until a few days ago when I was listening to it while walking to class. I'd figured "LA" was just a throwaway. But then I realized "Los Angeles" means "City of Angels," which in the context of the song can be seen as a pun - the double meaning, of course, being Heaven. I like to think I would have noticed it sooner if it wasn't a Tweedy lyric - he's never been particularly invested/interested in this type of wordplay before, and so I certainly wasn't expecting a pun of any sort in one of his songs. But maybe I'm just slow. Regardless, it's a fun line, and it Wilco's going to be doing more straightforward rock songs on their next album, I very much hope we at least get this sort of humor in terms of lyrics - rather than the two new songs I've heard (after which I decided to just bide my time for the actual album) which are simplistic and dull, lyrically, rather than simplistic and fun.