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In Reply to: playing The Earlies again... posted by dave c on October 1, 2005 at 17:36:23:
I'm really starting to warm up to the Micah Hinson And The Gospel Of Progress disc. It's a dark and dreamy mix that reminds me at times of Isaac Brock and Will Oldham and Nick Cave and Tom Waits and Jeff Mangum and some of my other favorites. Quite a few standouts even though the disc is still quite new to me, but the last three songs really send me off in the right direction. And the third song titled "Don't You, Pts. 1-2" sounds a lot like Modest Mouse, especially when he sings, "that don't mean a thing anyway", it sounds almost just like Brock, and also sounds like something he would write.But talk about a disc for broken-hearted lovers, this is the drug. There's a song called "I Still Remember" in the middle that is just a heart ripper, "And I still remember thinking, I wish I could know you, for an eternity, or at least until we grow old. And I still remember thinking, how lovely it could be, to hold you for eternity, or at least until you fell asleep", with Micah trading verses with that angelic Sarah Lowes from the Earlies (who back him and produce the album). Beautiful. And that 8 1/2 minute epic cosmic country closer, "The Day Texas Sank To The Bottom of The Sea", just knocks me out. And the opening block of three songs is a highlight as well. And then there's "Stand in My Way" that comes along with a sad country waltz, interwoven with a mournful cello and accented with plucked strings and a background accordian and piano, but then a brass band comes in and drives it toward Neutral Milk Hotel territory. Great song!
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I am just playing it for the first time and its really really good, isn't it?
Yeah, it is good. He's just a young guy, barely in his 20s, and it's not perfect, but pretty darn good. I guess this one actually hit the UK streets at the end of last year, but I'm calling it 2005. A buddy over there told me he has the new one and doesn't like it near as much, but that's all I've heard about it.Reflecting on it a little, and glancing back through some of my best of the year lists, it seems like there's been at least one of those melancholy albums that's really struck a chord with me in each of the last few years (and there's a few of them this year filling that spot) ...
2000
Black Heart Procession - Three2001
Joe Henry - Scar2002
Songs: Ohia - Didn't It Rain2003
Damien Jurado - Where shall you take me?2004
Willard Grant Conspiracy - Regard the End
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