“Brand New Baby” is yet another quintessential Semisonic song – Wilson’s falsettos in the chorus show off more of his vocal strengths that don’t get put into the forefront that often.Įven though the band are at their best when they’re riddled with post-breakup angst, Semisonic prove they can still rock out with love songs. As he cries, “All the suffering's a mystery to me, so you'll never even get to go down in flames”, it’s pretty obvious that these feelings come across his mind far too often. “Down in Flames” begins with him singing over some acoustic strumming before the whole band comes in with roaring riffs and frenetic drumming. Dan Wilson’s vocals express the pain and regret so flawlessly it’s hard not to feel sorry for whatever put him into such misery. While the jangly, upbeat “F.N.T.” and “Delicious” are feel-good anthems that celebrate just how special his love interests are, it’s the dreary and melancholic tracks and that show off the album’s core. Great Divide is the perfect encapsulation of all of Wilson’s romantic highs and lows. It’s hard for a band to make their best record on their first try, but Semisonic did just that. Great Divide, Semisonic’s debut, saw Wilson pouring his heart out into the album’s twelve songs, which cover a diverse array of emotions involving love and heartbreak. Two years before they would see any chart success, Dan Wilson and company were an up-and-coming act reeling from the breakup of Trip Shakespeare. A large majority of the pople who have heard of Semisonic know their quintessential 90s alt-rock hit “Closing Time”, but what not many realize is that Feeling Strangely Fine, the album that spawned their massive hit, was actually their second. One of the consequences of being labeled a one-hit wonder is that most people generally have little to no knowledge of any other material released by the artist who managed to squeeze out one well-known song before tumbling into obscurity. Review Summary: 1996's fascinating new thing.
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