Beware by Bonnie “Prince” Billy
Posted on Feb 21, 2009 under Indie Artist | No Comment
Sadness is a fact of life. It’s most often romanticized and exaggerated (Emo, anyone?) but in Beware by Bonnie “Prince” Billy, it is simply that, a hard fact of life. It’s not wallowing or self-pitying, Billy’s sadness is a ditch one crashes into and climbs out of, a snag that’s forgotten in the long run, a detour one goes around of. The feeling is almost of numbness, of a sort of apathy towards the situation, and the simple moving forward which is inertly a part of every human being.
Billy’s songs are about love – or the lack of it – but each one is unique, beautifully written and rendered into song. Songs like “You Don’t Love Me”, “Beware Your Only Friend”, and “I Won’t Ask Again” talk of relationships, but not in the way we usually know sad songs. Its straightforward, no nonsense un-melodramatic music.