Page 1: Great Expectations
The first page of Great Expectations, as rendered by 70 different designers.
The Microphones – “I’ll Be in the Air”
Don’t Wake Me Up
Early Phil Elvrum is occasionally hard to tell apart form late-era Phil Elvrum. In this case the pensive vocals and roiling guitars could have come from practically any of his projects and albums. It is in fact from 1999’s Don’t Wake Me Up, part of a very fertile period in his songwriting career. I can’t tell if that’s Mirah singing backup, but it’s possible.
Life in Life
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On the whole, I had rather judge men’s minds by comparing their thoughts with my own, than judge of thoughts by knowing who utter them.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
Lowcloudcover – “Skeleton Key”
Separation Anxiety
Confident, competent, and well-produced, this Lowcloudcover album sounds great but not particularly original. But reliably good, slightly-extended (all but two of the songs clock in between five and six minutes) psych-rock is surprisingly difficult to find and this is a fertile source. They must also be given extra credit for actually using the bass rather than letting it slog along deep in the low end.
Go Right
Holi – the Hindu color festival, in slow motion
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He swoops all-conquering, borne on airy wing,
With fire and sword he makes his harvesting;
Trembles before him Jove, whom gods do dread,
And quakes the darksome river of the dead.
Apuleius, Metamorphoses