All the Numbers (Swim Together)
CALIFONE SONGS, TO ME, are the most comfortable places to be. Califone songs are alive and gentle and ugly and real, in the sense that ugly and real are very, very pretty. "The Orchids" - I only wish it didn't end.
Visit Califone online. Roots & Crowns comes out October 10th.
Every night for the past week or so I've lay in bed listening to Get Lonely. This may or may not be a good idea - sometimes I make it to sleep before the end, sometimes I don't. Or can't. Luckily, my favorite part of the record comes early, in the second song, called "New Monster Avenue." It's best to listen on cd through headphones, to hear the percussion as clearly as it was meant to be heard. The way it swells, organic and unassuming, to a heartbreaking crescendo after he looks down at his hands, "like they were mirrors," and then especially when the monsters (neighbors) come out, brandishing torches. In its way, these small waves are much more affecting than any squall could be, which could be said for the entire record.
Buy Get Lonely here.
Califone - The Orchids (Psychic TV cover) [mp3]
Visit Califone online. Roots & Crowns comes out October 10th.
Every night for the past week or so I've lay in bed listening to Get Lonely. This may or may not be a good idea - sometimes I make it to sleep before the end, sometimes I don't. Or can't. Luckily, my favorite part of the record comes early, in the second song, called "New Monster Avenue." It's best to listen on cd through headphones, to hear the percussion as clearly as it was meant to be heard. The way it swells, organic and unassuming, to a heartbreaking crescendo after he looks down at his hands, "like they were mirrors," and then especially when the monsters (neighbors) come out, brandishing torches. In its way, these small waves are much more affecting than any squall could be, which could be said for the entire record.
Buy Get Lonely here.
by brian at 8/30/2006 10:42:00 AM
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