{"id":18611,"date":"2015-02-03T14:00:50","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T19:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toiletovhell.com\/?p=18611"},"modified":"2015-02-03T13:32:03","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T18:32:03","slug":"the-porcelain-throne-the-dear-hunter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/the-porcelain-throne-the-dear-hunter\/","title":{"rendered":"The Porcelain Throne: The Dear Hunter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Alright guys, I am almost completely out of bands that I have extensive knowledge about, so I really need your help to keep the Porcelain Throne occupied. Click here to download\u00a0The Official Porcelain Throne Guidelines<\/a>, and send submissions to tohthrone@gmail.com<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

This edition, Stockhausen<\/strong> and I teamed up to write about one of our favorite non-metal bands, The Dear Hunter<\/strong>, not to be mixed up with The Deer Hunter<\/strong> (<\/em>the movie) or the other indie rock band, Deerhunter<\/strong>. The Dear Hunter is the superior of the three.\u00a0Stockhousen is in blue<\/span> and I am in black.<\/p>\n

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I should start by saying that I tend to not like indie rock. At one point, the term probably applied to bands and artists with a sound that didn\u2019t fit the big-ticket rock sound, and was presumably a broad umbrella that encompassed a lot of genuinely creative and new paths. However, since 2005 or so, indie music has been synonymous with self-indulgent whiny crap<\/a>. Thankfully, The Dear Hunter has provided us with a wealth of honest, creative music in the \u201cindie\u201d realm that doesn\u2019t slop easily into a broad, boring category.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Dear Hunter started as a solo project by Casey Crescenzo, who was previously with the band The Receiving End of Sirens<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0By no means were they a bad band, but they are not something I regularly enjoy. They would be the best band at like a Warped Tour or something, but luckily Casey was asked to leave TREOS<\/a>, and took his creative potential and formed what would become one of my favorite bands of all time.<\/p>\n

Act I: The Lake South, The River North<\/strong> (2006)<\/strong><\/p>\n

The original idea for this project was to create a collection of six acts, detailing the birth, life, and death of a man<\/span>, known as the Dear Hunter. Crescenzo wrote Act I<\/em> and recorded it with the help of his brother on drums and his mother on additional vocals. Featuring diverse instrumentation and varied structures, the broad-scope nature of the songs showed his talent in bringing musical weight and nuance to the subject matter. My favorite track, City Escape<\/em> is a driving, multi-faceted look at the main character\u2019s mother and her complicated life as a prostitute.<\/span> From the beginning of this project, Casey does an unbelievable job creating this surreal early 20th<\/sup> century vibe, and a theatrical musical theme that spans all three acts so far.<\/p>\n