Marriage displays the grandeur of Arcade Fire's finer moments with the lyrical and emotional heft of Sufjan Steven's more personal cuts. Marriage is also about ambivalence.įor an album to tackle such big and slippery themes, it almost has to be cinematic, and in that regard, Oryx & Crake do not disappoint. Ostensibly, Marriage is about commitment - in a broad sense, not just between romantic partners - but it's even bigger than that. But knowing and seeing are two different things entirely, and Oryx & Crake make hay of the tension that lies between the two loading on Patterson Hood's "duality of the Southern thing," abandoned religion and nods to more than one of the great post-apolcalyptic novels of our time for good measure. "There's a beast in me/and I know you know this," Ryan sings on "Strange as You Are," the opener of the band's latest album, Marriage. Though, chances are they mean it in a totally different way. So, too, do husband and wife Ryan Peoples and Rebekah Goode-Peoples of Atlanta's Oryx & Crake. Peoples use these words all the time in relation to marriage, in vows and explanations and elegies.
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