The Business of Breaking Hearts.

There is a brilliance to the darkness in the music of That's Him! That's the Guy! We musicians often find ourselves in the business of breaking hearts. We look for the cracks and wedge them open. Sometimes this is done in one song, but with "An Army Life" David Martin and Joseph Scott plan heartbreak like a beach storming campaign. There are phases of kindness and beauty needed to establish a point from which the listener can descend into beautiful disappointment. The loveliness of their arrangements and harmonies coat the poison in sweetness. It goes down smooth and takes you down from the depths of your chest. I think of sitting a cafe in Montpelier, Vermont, where I broke down in tears listening to the pain in their concept album. Tears in public. I didn't gulp and gasp and sob, but there they were, those chills and that heart within mine, soothing me with the realism that only sad music ever finds, illuminating and casting relief at once, shadows and highlights whose truth sets its witness free. I am listening still. - Dylan