Archive for September, 2012
I don’t promise this will be the last post about Lord huron until release date but I do promise that it will be the last this week. Every new single they make public is strengthening my belief that Lonesome Dreams will blow most of the year’s other releases out of the water. They’re slowly revealing the record little by little like a Burgo’s Catchphrase finale, but with a bigger payoff at the end.
Here is a list of things I’m looking forward to a fair bit yet not as much as Lonesome Dreams:
- Christmas
- Cirque du Soleil
- This courier company picking up their phone so I can finally run this track and trace. 49 minutes of hold, no joke.
- Robo-tennis
- Merrick getting new glasses
- Seeing Merrick in his new glasses
Things I am looking forward to more than Lonesome Dreams:
- Robo tennis
I’ve comprehensively demonstrated how significant this release will be. Only the combination of cyborgs and ballsport holds more promise than this record and that’s a fact. Nope, not Australian but I don’t care, I’m smitten. Sometimes you just have to follow your heart if you want to make your dreams dance through the chasms of our lives.
Lord Huron – Brother
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A throwback to the SoundDoc days of yore when harmonies were the primary currency and trade agreements were settled almost exclusively by contests of fingerpicking and beards. Those days may be gone but there’s still some pretty ol’ folk floating around, even if the most of it sounds too similar to be distinguishable. This one’s an overseas band (obviously I’ve done my reasearch) called Wickerbird who have a new record coming out called The Crow Mother. The lead single ‘Druids’ (and from what I’ve heard from the record stream, the whole album) is a haunting wash of layered vocals. Blake Cowan’s voice hovers above the crackle and pop of the recording with but the barest instrumentation behind it, be they Bon Iveresque acoustic chord progressions (see: Tripoli) or just the dull thump of a slow, earthen beat. Oh, you know what this reminds me of? The Wilderness of Manitoba. I don’t know how to explain to you that the forest sounds you can hear in the background of some parts of the record are actually really endearing without hating myself for it, so let’s not think too hard on it. Really lovely stuff.
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