Suffer For Two is the second single to be taken from BC (Brian Christinzio)'s sophomore album 'Blink Of A Nihilist', the follow up to the widely praised ‘Hide Run Away’ of 2005 .
He’s a man with piano led pop ambitions inspired by artists like Todd Rundgren and Brian Wilson. This single sounds appropriately bright and poppy, but rather more akin to Mika than the Beach Boys.
It seems optimistic and not too serious until you learn that it was written following research in US prisons and asylums. After that, lines like "I won't attack, I'm not a maniac" take on a fresh perspective.
The single's title and cover art, which depicts a cartoon of two bearded gents getting struck by lightning, implies that its message may be a variation of the old adage that a trouble shared is a trouble halved. Certainly the falsetto vocals and up-beat mood of this song sounds to be more focused on life's silver linings, or what his publicist's call " eternally rooted in a ray of abstract sunshine".
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All this suggests that there may be more to this 3 minute slice of commercial pop than meets the ear.
I'm more than happy to give BC from Philadelphia the benefit of the doubt but I have to say it still sounds pretty cheesy to me.
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