Dan Knishkowy recites the opening lines to Mount Eerie and Julie Doiron’s “Belief pt. 2” without pausing for thought: “I believed in love and I still do / I’m not going to seal up my heart.” Knishkowy listened to the song repeatedly while writing Whodunnit, the new album from his Adeline Hotel project.
He was, like Phil Elverum, writing through a divorce. Those lines signaled a refusal to submit to the anger that characterizes most break-up albums..
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