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a r t i s t : The Prayers and Tears of Arthur Digby Sellers
t i t l e : Mother of Love Emulates the Shapes of Cynthia
d a t e : 2005
l a b e l : Bu Hanan
g e n r e : Indie
r l s. d a t e : 09/2005
t r a c k s : 12
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 75,6 MB
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With the release of the Prayers and Tears of Arthur Digby
Sellers' sophomore album, three nascent principles emerge in
the Triangle music scene: Perry right is one of its most
impressive songwriting talents; producer Alex Lazara is one of
its most capable and creative visionaries; and the Bu Hanan
records family- hitherto more of a collection of friends making
record in Chapel Hill homes- is suddenly an artistic stable
worthy of envy. How's that for an auspicious arrival?
With The Mother of Love Emulates the Shapes of Cynthia, Wright
and his Bu Hanan partners effectively transform a set of songs
for the acoustic guitar and less-than shoestring budget into an
ambitiously actualized concept album, probing the collapse of
love and the cascade of hearts in a society more about
net-worthing than networking.
That's what makes them different. This one is about networking.
In a folky, Omaha fashion, Wright taps the resources of those
around him, borrowing the gifts of no less than 14 people-
including his own sister, the label's publicist and Bellafea's
Heather McEntire. It's this artistic symbiosis and dialogue
that have, in part, readied Wright for this record.
There's something else at work in Wright's preparation, too-
namely, intellect. Cynthia offers a glimpse at the assorted and
burrowed tunnels of a complicated mind, an absorbent, watchful,
keen mind capable of compiling theories, theologies, dialogues,
parables and paradoxes and funneling them into four-minute
considerations worthy of thousand-word elaboration. He writes
through condensing. Wright's songs are rife with the alluded
ideas of philosophers, scientists, musicians, artists, poets,
emperors and iconoclasts. He spews them out in meticulous,
careful, distended metaphors of alien abductions, telescopes,
lunar cycles and marriages arriving at terminus.
Somehow, Wright- under the tempered guidance of Lazara- avoids
the typical pitfalls of such analytical poetry with so much to
say so emphatically: Whereas his 2002 debut Psalterie exploded
into overarching and sometimes overreaching exclamations at the
whim of every posed question and answer, Cynthia bides its
time, allowing Wright's keen observations to trickle down as
beads of exacerbated sweat over the skin of an electro-acoustic
canvas painted more for conversation than coercion through
crescendo.
That's not to say that this is an even-keel, monotone affair:
Instead, moments of intense quiet preside long enough for the
perfectly executed catharses to make their point. That quiet
mounts incredible tension released in intermittent, incendiary
ruptures. The opening exclamation of "The Eventual Intimate of
So Much Nostalgia" booms only after a creaking entree. A
chilling midstream, three-song suite quiet precedes the
climactic, resounding, Pedro The Lion-like redemption, "Raise
Up, You Celestial Choirs."
During "Ontothanatological", the last of that rising action,
it's almost possible to picture Wright like Rodin's The
Thinker, his hand tucked under his chin, every muscle rippling
under the catastrophic load mounted by the song's devastation
query: "If our ship went down and spilled us out, would you
think of me and smile as we drown?" Bold, brilliant and
beautiful
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01-The Eventual Intimate Of So Much Nostalgia [04:02]
02-Concerning Lessons Learned [02:59]
03-Rotation Of Crops [04:18]
04-Archaeopteryx [02:54]
05-Ammunition For A Bolt-Action Heart [04:05]
06-Above The Waves [03:56]
07-Cannot Eat Better Not Sleep [04:05]
08-The Slow Decay Of Some Radio Afterglows [07:15]
09-Disposable Drummers In Disposable Bands [03:54]
10-Ontothanatological [03:28]
11-Raise Up, You Celestial Choirs [04:26]
12-The Sad Lives Of The Hollywood Lovers [04:43]
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