Artist : Wickerbird
Album : The Westering
Year : 2013
Genre : Indie
Quality : 222kbps / 44.1KHz / Joint Stereo
Source : CD
Playtime : 0h 20m
Size : 33.87mb
Label : Self-Released
Catalognr :
Tracklist:
01. Boreal 2:57
02. Hollow 4:53
03. The Harbor 3:31
04. The Westering 4:56
05. Fay Warer 3:55
Releasenotes:
This is a quiet post-script, long lost and forgotten in the frost.
This is motion rather than respite, expedition rather than stagnation.
This is a breaking of camp at evening,
the outset of a sojourn into the night.
Rather than flee the advancing Winter and return home yet unsated and fearful,
this is my embarkation into the yawning pines and the monsters that writhe
within it.
Haunting, deathless questions of life.
This is the dying sun,
laying down in the west,
yielding to the night.
This is the beginning of a journey in the dark.
There are deeper woods yet.
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When I was younger I thought folk was daggy. I am so happy to have been proven
wrong time and time again, and Blake Cowan aka Wickerbird has hammered the final
nail into the coffin of my oh-so-specious first opinion.
The Westering EP is WickerbirdÆs follow-up to debut album The Crow Mother. Cowan
called The Crow Mother the prologue, with The Westering the first chapter, and
it certainly has the makings of a much more mature artist.
It sounds like Wickerbird jammed a forest into a bathroom to record this EP.
ItÆs full of crackly atmosphere, outdoor ambient samples, and reverby echoes.
The organic production style gives the EP a lingering and delicate wistfulness,
with CowanÆs vocals and breathily layered harmonies fragile and alluring.
The Westering sounds like a dusty old record of your dadÆs that has been hiding
away in some crate since the 70s. Wickerbird slots right into the current wave
of nu-folk artists, but still sounds authentic. ItÆs an easy recording to like.
http://acidstag.com/2013/04/08/wickerbird-the-westering-ep-review-stream/
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