Jenn Wasner from Wye Oak has recently joined Liz Powell (Land of Talk) and Victoria Legrand (Beach House) on the "boss lady singers Chris has a boner for" list. Although these women are all reasonably attractive, I should explain that this list has little to do with physical appearance and everything to do with being an amazing singer-songwriter. Jenn Wasner sings lower than most women do, but her tone's still airy and beautiful, and when you combine that with the intervals and elaborate melodies in this song it's a recipe for orgasm. And then she plays an amazingly distorted, sloppy, raw guitar solo.
If I'm interpreting the lyrics correctly, "Civilian" is about a woman whose insecurities have either ended or prevented her relationship with this Civilian guy. He still "sleeps in the bed with (her)," but as the song goes on the prevalence of past tense makes it clear that he's only metaphorically there. It's an achey-breaky song in general, but the part that really guts me is when she laments how she's "perfectly able to hold my own hand, but I still can't kiss my own neck." I'm gonna go cry now.
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