I think I am also going to create an arbitrary rating system to have some more fun with this. I believe I may've been too generous with stars in my previous reviews. After all, if The White Album can only max out at 5, how much hope is there for anything above a 2 really?
Tamer Animals by Other Lives Rating: a sack full of Kinder Bueno Bars
Do it. Not because it's some obscure hipster band you heard about from a random blog. Do it because it is good, wholesome music. This album smacks of reincarnated British psychedelic/indie sounds. Sort of like a tamer version of The End's Introspection album. Harmonizing vocals, soothing piano, strings, woodwinds, acoustic guitar, tambourine tambourine tambourine. The bizarre, mumbled British voices fade into it all. There's clearly an effort to create an atmosphere more than there is to convey concepts through words. It's a great break from the pseudo-intellectual stuff that usually gets crammed into this genre.
Mirel Wagner's self-titled, self-styled album Rating: 4.4793 Lovecrafts
Pain, sadness, necrophilia? Usually people don't like subjecting themselves to something so bleak for an extended time, but there's something of Eliot Smith in the way you can't pull yourself away from the despair. You almost regret the song "The Well" has an end at all. It has a mesmerizing guitar rhythm with dark and hopeless images you delight in. Her lyrics are simple and rhyme neatly--almost like a children's story--but at times you can feel your alarm at what is actually being said. A good example of this is "No Death". The pure simplicity of the guitar and her matter-of-fact way of half singing/half speaking creates a creepy land fit for a Burton movie. A truly great, truly dark album.
And a related bonus music/pop-art collision for lolzing.
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