"All I want is for a voice to come out of the wilderness and the stereo to crackle in flames like the burning bush. I don't want to have to ask,' Are you talking to me?' I want to know. And then I want to dance. In other words, I'm going to be a sucker for someone who takes rock and roll as a religion, and romanticizes the hell out of mundane details."
Ariel Swartley opens with what she is looking for in an album and in hindshight found those qualities in Bruce Springsteen's The Wild, The Innocent and The E Street Shuffle. In short Swartley wants something that is exciting, descriptive and rock and roll. It needs to have pasaze and enough substance to either take you to a peculiar location or give enough of a picture to let your imagination go wild. Some of these qualifications I used in my own decision making for my desert island album. I want something that can transport me from my solitude and isolation that I found myself in. Some that fit the mood of the island would only lull you to stay there and the exact opposite of what i want. Swartley can relate.
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