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Earlyinto
Santa
Cruz,
the
poignant
third
album
in
David
Bazan’
s
ongoing
musical
memoir
of
his
sometimes-uncanny
life,
he
discovers
the
Beatles.
He
is
the
new
kid
from
Arizona
in
a
new
school
in
the
famous
California
coastal
town
where
his
dad
has
accepted
another
post
at
a
Bible
college.
He
and
his
first
friend
there,
Matt,
are
sitting
on
the
carpet
in
Matt’
s
little
bedroom,
flipping
through
the
records
bequeathed
by
his
father
,
when
Bazan
spots
a
familiar
cover—The
White
Album,
known
only
from
a
church
documentary
that
warned
children
of
the
Satanic
secrets
of
“Revolution
9.”
Play
it
backwards,
the
propaganda
said,
and
it
would
of
fer
a
command:
“T
urn
me
on,
dead
man.”
So,
of
course,
the
kids
played
it
forward
and
were
fascinated
by
the
sound,
by
the
imagination,
by
the
act
of
consecrated
creativity
far
outside
of
Christian
rock.
Bazan
was
13. “T
reading
water
on
the
open
ocean/Then
you
threw
me
out
a
life
ring,”
he
sings,
the
smile
obvious
just
through
the
sound
as
the
beat
picks
up
like
a
racing
pulse,
more
than
three
decades
later
.
“All
I
needed
was
a
little
help
from
a
friend.”
That
is
the
moment
where,
in
many
ways,
the
remarkable
songs
of
Pedro
the
Lion
begin
to
take
shape.
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