By Jason Hunter
2002 was the year I had started dating the love of my life and was listening to recently released albums by Interpol (Turn on the Bright Lights), Iron & Wine (The Creek Drank the Cradle), and Isis (Oceanic). Revisiting these albums for this week brought back a number of memories - shuttling between bars, restaurants, movies, road trips to New York City to meet her friends, a birthday weekend in West Virginia. Those days and nights are embedded in the ringing guitars of Interpol's "Untitled" and "NYC" and the hushed tones of Iron & Wine's "Lion's Mane", "Bird Stealing Bread", and "Promising Light". However, it's Isis' "The Beginning and the End" that reminds me of a serendipitous moment. At the end of a late night of driving up I-95, we exited the highway and as we descended Cottman Avenue, the freeways roar gave way to a pulsing, menacing rhythm. I knew it, but couldn't place it until Maria Christopher's vocals wandered through. The first track from Oceanic by Isis. We'd left the radio on, but low, after some random station in Northern Maryland faded away. Now in the late night on this deserted three lane road a station with this song found us. An unexpected but familiar (and fantastic) tune that accompanied us as for the final few turns to our destination.
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