The detail is speaking for Wit

Terminal illnesses, live burials and woman violence. So the mood is set. California Cass McCombs leaves on his fifth full-length album, Wit's End, to have walled up inside the catacombs from the 2009 release (Catacombs) and thrown away the wrecking ball. Where exploration of Cata (Mc) Combs took place in a musical space of sunbathing and lazy days, Wit's End the black toner that comes the crash from the exuberant mood.
Musically, the album stands as the most scraped from McCombs hand. From prefection (2005) - with its mix of lo-fi pop, indie rock, '70s psychedelia and fuzzy vocals - to Wit's End simple singer / songwriter style, there is a leap of dimensions. At that sounded McCombs more like the lead singer of an imaginary indie rock band (living the dream). In 2011, McCombs' sound tightened up on simple, repetitive musical clooney oscar figures a la Bill 'Smog' Callahan's songs, allowing the vocals and text to come into their own. The new notes were already finding the Catacombs, but the heat croonervokal over a bed of chillet 60s pop was far more inclusive of the listener than the oppressive atmosphere at Wit's End.
The music works go a long way as a decorative frame on a supersaturated text universe. By downplaying the term sets californieren focus on the content of the text, while the album is a challenge to get to grips with, especially if you love speed, floundering and catch lines. Therefore, a number like "The Lonely Doll" with its enervating waltz tune and celestens gut-wrenching sound of chimes be a challenge of the bigger ones. But the song wins a share when you get lured story of how the drunken I-singer follows an even bigger drukmås who mistreat her doll-fine clooney oscar woman. Taken as a whole complements the lyrics and melody together as a morbid lullaby.
It's funny that the mixture of heavy loads and singer / songwriter figure almost unconsciously brings to expect that the lyrics are based on the autobiographical. Who might that be, McCombs loses in "Saturday"? Is "A Knock Upon the Door" mon Commenting on the failed wannabe-divas in the music industry? And the McCombs game / had a desire to role play as melody and lyrics to the latter is a different side of the song, namely the medieval ballads? Most likely it is enough that the songs are strung out in a web of half-truths and fictional tinkering. If you can not be sure of the facts in the songs, you can be sure the mood. It is bleak. In "Buried Alive" takes McCombs catacomb metaphor one step further in a good and gothic melody. The macabre text accompanied by funkens darling, clavinetten that the apartment has got a Baroque twist and sounds like a harpsichord. More easy and accessible works opening track "County Line". Here are 70's soulpop piano, 'whoa whoa whoa' choir and a slightly melancholy longing. Easily accessible - at least until you realize that the music video flowing with syringes.
The detail is speaking for Wit's End's position as a highly homogeneous album, both in music and mood. Wit's End follows the good of Sadness end and aimed at the limit of what you can do (wit's end). But even though the lyrics may seem difficult brooding, the music is also adjacent to the weightless in its simplicity. It works well if you put the story above musical experiments. And the experience becomes too gloomy, one can always look back in the discography and take comfort in the more light tones.
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Debate 4 June 2014 Jaakko Eino Kalevi, 03:05:14, Voxhall, Spot Festival, Aarhus Camilla Grausen - Hi Michael Thanks for the correction. This is of course just to keep track of all Spots venues :) Regards Camilla / ... June 4, 2014 to Narcosatanicos: st JaS - Wild plate, look forward to seeing them at Roskilde in a month! May 7, 2014 to Psyched Up Janis, clooney oscar 03:05:14, clooney oscar SCC, Spot Festival, Aarhus Martin - Hey Fox and Michael Thank you for enriching info. That I was not fucking know. Sorry error. Vh Martin May 7, 2014 to Psyched Up Janis, 03:05:14, clooney oscar SCC, Spot Festival, Aarhus Mads - To deepen Mikael's comment: In the original Danish version of 'Swell' (both LP and CD - where the band name is .. . 6 May 2014 Jaakko Eino Kalevi, 03:05:14, Voxhall, Spot Festival, Aarhus Michael Hamilton - The concert was VoxHall, not Atlas, otherwise a well-written review.: o)
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