I liked "Phantom Doll" right from the beginning: it was so much unlike the Carter-and-Grammer sound I was used to, with its spooky jazz turns; a sort of modern danse macabre. "Mother I Climbed" and "Winter When He Goes" were the ones I took a little while to warm up to.
there's none of the depth of harmony that appears on the three proper DC&TG albums - nothing like "Kate and the Ghost of Lost Love," "Tanglewood Tree," or "Disappearing Man."
I love the overlapping vocals in "Kate and the Ghost of Lost Love" and "Tanglewood Tree." I've never been able to pick out all of the lyrics on "Tanglewood Tree" for that reason, of course, but I don't mind. It's a wonderful mesh of images and sound.
Verdant Mile is quite good - the title song is heartbreaking, if perhaps a hair clever (It's aggressively meta-textual).
I've seen the lyrics; that was one of the reasons I wanted to know whether it worked or not. Cool. I shall attempt once again to find a record store that sells the album . . .
My icon is a picture of a race called Boggans from the roleplaying game Changeling: The Dreaming.
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there's none of the depth of harmony that appears on the three proper DC&TG albums - nothing like "Kate and the Ghost of Lost Love," "Tanglewood Tree," or "Disappearing Man."
I love the overlapping vocals in "Kate and the Ghost of Lost Love" and "Tanglewood Tree." I've never been able to pick out all of the lyrics on "Tanglewood Tree" for that reason, of course, but I don't mind. It's a wonderful mesh of images and sound.
Verdant Mile is quite good - the title song is heartbreaking, if perhaps a hair clever (It's aggressively meta-textual).
I've seen the lyrics; that was one of the reasons I wanted to know whether it worked or not. Cool. I shall attempt once again to find a record store that sells the album . . .
My icon is a picture of a race called Boggans from the roleplaying game Changeling: The Dreaming.
Never heard of them, but: awesome eyebrows.