Album highlight 'I Live Alone' speaks in simple terms of dealing with solitude and regret, and properly integrates layered acoustic guitars and piano hooks to create a strong bridge section. It's mildly entertaining on the first track, however it quickly becomes tiresome as the record trudges on and will most likely cause the eyes of anyone previously unconvinced by Owl City's wordplay to roll in all directions - or become entirely shut in deep slumber.īut such individuals might not want to switch off entirely, as while the characteristic turbid fluffiness is repeated on many occasions over the 38-minute runtime, things get marginally more interesting when Young shakes off his preoccupation with fuzzy lyrics and decides to play with the instrumentation a bit. The album begins decently enough with 'Captains of the Sky', a straightforward track full of Young's signature quirky lyrics, "I woke up beneath the flight deck/ of a wallpaper airplane", "Dive bomb, we descended down the staircase/ and crashed to the kitchen floor". The collection of songs was written by Young whilst working at a metal factory and living in his parent's basement - a decidedly unambitious and uninteresting situation.Īnd so it is with AACMtB: unambitious, but uninteresting? Well, mostly. Review Summary: Occasionally interesting, but mostly a sonic sedative.ĭescribed by Owl City's Adam Young as the acoustic project of his early music-writing years, An Airplane Carried Me to Bed is his only effort under the name Sky Sailing.
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