Right Away, Great Captain

It's strange how things get away from you, the planned regular posts in here was an idea and plan lost to the busyness of day to day life, but I'm back on here and will waste no more time, write I will.

My first exposure to Andy Hull was through Manchester Orchestra. One of my favourite bands Anathallo was supporting them at the Bodega Social Club. I thought in preperation I better check out the headlining act, what a pleasant suprise I was in for. They had me immediately, the music filled the room, changed the air, influenced the atmosphere. It left a dwelling mood for Andy to speak over and what a craftsman of the word he is, though he sings with such feeling that you could have no idea what he was talking about and still empaphise with him.
This is something he deffinitely carries through into his solo project - Right Away, Great Captain. Right Away, Great Captain is a musical project based around a story, a story fiction in of itself but I feel probably closely attatched to feelings and experiences Andy Hull has sitting inside him, this is his way to express them. I don't know if he feels any better from it, but he drags you right into the sadness with him, and yet leaving you thinking there's no place you'd rather be. The story is one of a sailor who finds his wife in an affair with his brother. It challenges many different feelings but it's this issue of travel and distance that interests me most. There's a sadness in distance, a solemn loneliness and yet the thought of leaving enters my mind every day, on the day I eventually do I feel Right Away, Great Captain would make the perfect soundtrack.