Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Sweeping The Nation Albums Of 2008: Number 21



No question Department Of Eagles owe a debt to Grizzly Bear - Daniel Rossen is in both, after all, and their bassist/technical genius Chris Taylor produced In Ear Park - but the real surprise is how far Rossen and Fred Nicolaus have travelled from the more experimentally spliced earlier material. There's still something of the patchwork about it, but this time it's where the individual disciplines - freak folk, Mercury Rev electronic pastorialismm psych-pop - are folded into each other to create an emotional whole without becoming overbalanced.

If as well as Grizzly Bear you're reminded of certain other leading players in the New Weird Americana movement - Animal Collective in their less outre Sung Tongs moments, Akron/Family - in the way it playfully subverts the norms of US folk. The opening title track runs on hazy Spanish guitar that sounds like a gently flowing stream alongside which are sparse piano, progressive more apparent percussion and sumptuous vocals; Around The Bay is as if Panda Bear had to construct Person Pitch from Neil Young and Richard Thompson records. Clearly a lot of this material is very personal for Rossen, the album dedicated to his late father and containing meditations on existance, most directly on Classical Records, where Rossen's voice is front and centre amid hums, clanking percussion and prodded piano as he considers how to deal with loss. As such it often doesn't really need to be extended from basic acoustic structure, cases in point the ethereal piano loop and echoed vocals of Teenagers and the wispy, folky Phantom Other in particular, but bells and whistles are seemingly never added for the sake of it, whether it be big drums or background found sounds. The aforementioned Teenagers shimmers with an approximate West Coast sheen, while someone should alert Van Dyke Parks to Herring Bone. No One Does It Like You throws out a pop curveball in the shape of a rhythm track not too far from Amy Winehouse's Back To Black, if augmented by a wordless backing chorus and the lyric "I curse these legs I walked on". So layered you find something new to love on every listen, Rossen may not reach the heights of his other band - and early live recordings suggest their spring ETA next full-length will be something outstanding - but using the same tools he more than does the job.

No One Does It Like You (live)


The full list

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

成人電影,情色,本土自拍, 美女交友, 嘟嘟成人網, 成人貼圖, 成人電影, A片, 豆豆聊天室, 聊天室, UT聊天室, 尋夢園聊天室, 男同志聊天室, UT男同志聊天室, 聊天室尋夢園, 080聊天室, 080苗栗人聊天室, 6K聊天室, 女同志聊天室, 小高聊天室, 情色論壇, 色情網站, 成人網站, 成人論壇, 免費A片, 上班族聊天室, 成人聊天室, 成人小說, 微風成人區, 色美媚部落格, 成人文章, 成人圖片區, 免費成人影片, 成人論壇, 情色聊天室, 寄情築園小遊戲, AV女優,成人電影,情色,本土自拍, A片下載, 日本A片, 麗的色遊戲, 色色網, ,嘟嘟情人色網, 色情網站, 成人網站, 正妹牆, 正妹百人斬, aio,伊莉, 伊莉討論區, 成人遊戲, 成人影城,
ut聊天室,
免費A片, AV女優, 美女視訊, 情色交友, 免費AV, 色情網站, 辣妹視訊, 美女交友, 色情影片 成人影片, 成人網站, A片,H漫, 18成人, 成人圖片, 成人漫畫, 情色網,
日本A片, 愛情公寓, 情色, 舊情人, 情色貼圖, 情色文學, 情色交友, 色情聊天室, 色情小說, 一葉情貼圖片區, 情色小說, 色情, 色情遊戲, 情色視訊, 情色電影, aio交友愛情館, 色情a片, 一夜情, 辣妹視訊, 視訊聊天室, 免費視訊聊天, 免費視訊, 視訊, 視訊美女, 美女視訊, 視訊交友, 視訊聊天, 免費視訊聊天室, 情人視訊網影音視訊聊天室, 視訊交友90739, 成人影片, 成人交友, 本土自拍, 免費A片下載, 性愛,
成人交友, 嘟嘟成人網, 成人電影, 成人, 成人貼圖, 成人小說, 成人文章, 成人圖片區, 免費成人影片, 成人遊戲, 微風成人, 愛情公寓, 情色, 情色貼圖, 情色文學, 做愛, 色情聊天室, 色情小說, 一葉情貼圖片區, 情色小說, 色情, 寄情築園小遊戲, 色情遊戲情色視訊, 情色電影, aio交友愛情館, 言情小說, 愛情小說, 色情A片, 情色論壇, 色情影片, 視訊聊天室, 免費視訊聊天, 免費視訊, 視訊美女, 視訊交友, 視訊聊天, 免費視訊聊天室, a片下載, aV, av片, A漫, av dvd, av成人網, 聊天室, 成人論壇, 本土自拍, 自拍, A片,成人電影,情色,本土自拍,