Two Point Perspective

Life in Bed

Number of Stars: 2

Recommended if you…

Two Point Perspective

Life in Bed

Number of Stars: 2

Recommended if you like: Admiral Twin and Phish

Visions of plain, white sheets and a breeze blowing white curtains into your room make the idea of spending your life in bed a pretty romantic one. Though, as a college student, spending your life in bed seems like a great idea because of the pure exhaustion college causes. But being confined to a bed, realistically, would be pretty terrible. Life in Bed’s album Two Point Perspective is somewhere in between the romantic imagery, pure exhaustion and torture.

Almost every song on Two Point Perspective starts off sounding like chill rock with a breezy, mellow quality. Unfortunately, a dissonant guitar adds itself to many of the songs, changing the whole vibe of the song and exhausting your eardrums. On the song “Gun,” the guitar doesn’t mesh well with the song and takes away from the overall experience. The best part of the song is the lyrics, something common to many of Life in Bed’s songs. A particularly poignant lyric in “Gun” is “Lie first. It’s a graceful crime.” The lyrics in Two Point Perspective make you think about things from a different perspective, hence the album’s title.

The band also shows that it has some Pittsburgh in them when they sing “Dying to live there home enough great for yinz too loud for bands” on the song “Weight of an Atom.” The guitar in the song is again painfully repetitive and distracting from the lyrics. The background instrumentals sound like pure chaos. The best part of the song is a decent drum break that builds to a crescendo. By the end of the song, the guitar calms down a bit and finishes out on a pretty mellow tip. The lyrics in “Weight of an Atom” are interesting. A few choice lyrics are “It happened again wrong, wrong way out. Unstoppable in dreams, I am unstoppable in my life in bed.”

On Two Point Perspective, the musicianship is lacking and not up to par with the lyrics themselves. Really, Life in Bed just needs to chill out a little bit and stop playing their guitar and other instruments so urgently.

Life in Bed will play an all-ages CD release show on Fri., Oct. 17 at 8 p.m. at the ModernFormations Gallery, located at 4919 Penn Ave. They will be performing with The Wynkataug Monks and Arrivals and Departures. For more information, call (412) 362-0274.