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What if Jason just wanted to clean up his camp, or if Deliverance was just based on a comic misunderstanding? This is more or less the central and hilarious inspiration behind Director Eli Craig’s Tucker and Dale vs. Evil.
On the title track of his most recent EP, An Argument With Myself, Swedish pop songsmith Jens Lekman likens backpackers leaving a hostel to a “tidal wave of vomit,” in between schizophrenic spoken-word sections. This is what David Byrne would sound like in a Swedish Wes Anderson film, or maybe Belle and Sebastian on ’shrooms. The album is flecked through with the hallmarks of twee pop—high string flourishes, whistles, handclaps—but surreal lyrics send it soaring above the endless morass associated with the genre.
