This particular pool of light moving in a mesmeric manner backwards and forwards picked out from time to time a long red island of spilt wine. It seemed to leap forward from the mottled cloth when the light fastened upon it in startling contrast to the chiaroscuro and to defy the laws of tone.
Set Fire To Flames – “Steal Compass/Drive North/Disappear”
Sings Reign Rebuilder
This is one of those albums with a story, which is well worth your looking up. It’s essentially some of the Godspeed crew locked into a house for a week or so playing with instruments and samples of street preachers. It’s a pretty raw affair, but there are lots of great moments and this track is one of the most accessible to the slow-build post-rock style coveted by Godspeed fans.
Never less solitary than when he was alone, never more busy than when he seemed most idle.
Schlangengrotte – Grotte de serpents – Cave of snakes
Gold ion collision (Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, Brookhaven)
Varium et mutabile semper femina is the sharpest satire, in the fewest words, that ever was made on womankind; for both the adjectives are neuter, and animal must be understood, to make them grammar. Virgil does well to put those words into the mouth of Mercury. If a god had not spoken them, neither durst he have written them, nor I translated them.
Laura Gibson – “Shadows On Parade”
Beasts Of Seasons
One part plaintive singer-songwriter, one part… well, no, she’s all plaintive. I think this is a bit like a female M. Ward, perhaps, but it’s not that simple. She has the poetic effect of Tiny Vipers, but a more varied palette of sounds, calling on other instruments, ambient noise, and even the occasional drum. It’s snuggling music, but that doesn’t mean it’s innocuous. (insound)
