Favourite Song #2 - Microcastle - Deerhunter

Listing Dennis Cooper as an influence, the album art of Deerhunter's album cover picture of a teenage boy, hair tousled, lips parted and having a skull for eyeball, is the perfect portrait of the many young boys preyed on, abused and damaged by the careless and cruel adults in Cooper's stories. Similarly, the title song Microcastle decribes some sort of Stockholm syndrome situation where the separation of pain and warmth is unclear, and things just goes on and on where the beginning is the end and the end is the beginning. Musically, the song starts near-acapella with Cox's meandering mumbled vox and then interrupted by a deafening onslaught of guitars and drums. Not unlike Carpenter's Goodbye to Love.