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:: Release Info:
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:: Artist......> Tall Grass Captains of Greater Chicago
:: Title.......> She Moved Through
:: Label.......> Ubique
:: Genre.......> Indie
:: Rip.Date....> Oct-30-2005
:: Street.Date.> 000-00-0000
:: Source......> CDDA
:: Quality.....> VBRkbps - Full Stereo
:: Play Time...> 39:20 min
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:: Track Listing:
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:: 01. Something Else
:: 02. Her Love Has Time Defied
:: 03. World Exploding
:: 04. She Moved Through
:: 05. Til Tulsa
:: 06. Queen of A Million Blinking Eyes
:: 07. Way to E
:: 08. Countless Days on
:: 09. Our Lady of Perpetual Motion
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:: Release Notes:
::
:: Classic songcraft a la Elliott Smith, intense and poignant
:: like Neutral Milk Hotel, uplifting as the Flaming Lips,
:: rocking like Built to Spill, and sung with the conviction of
:: Elvis Costello.
::
:: Songwriter Mark Mattson did not originally set out to make an
:: elegy to family and friends lost in recent years, but early
:: on realized this was the direction in which the work with the
:: Tall Grass Captains was leading. "The songs were all coming
:: out with this turbulent, restless, and sometimes menacing
:: undercurrent. On top I was piling layers of pretty melodies
:: with intersnaking counterpoints. I realized this was how I
:: was trying to impose some order onto these shattering,
:: unexpected experiences. Initially I resisted that
:: notion--mostly because it seemed almost too obvious! But once
:: I faced it, and gave into it, the whole shape and reason for
:: the record--for even why I was doing music--materialized. And
:: it just took over." The result, She Moved Through, is
:: fearless, otherworldly, and ambitious in way that feels both
:: humorous and grave.
::
:: Mattson's songs on She Moved Through reflect the experiences
:: of an urban parochial childhood in his native Chicago, as
:: well as evoke the rural Midwestern expanses of his current
:: home in Dekalb, Illinois, where he also plays guitar and
:: producer for indie up-and-comers Grenadier. A veteran of the
:: Chicago rock scene as the leader of the Klugmaknotts and
:: Luminous, Mattson's work has consistently galvanized
:: audiences since the 90s, winning praise from critics for his
:: unique songwriting talent. He is back with the guitars (and
:: most everything else) on She Moved Through, while Craig
:: Swafford, Mattson's longtime collaborator, once again
:: provides drums, percussion, and devil's advocate services.
:: Together with Grenadier's enfant terrible, Jeremy Heroldt,
:: they form the core of the Ubique collective, with other
:: friends stopping by to lend their talents and beer to the
:: enterprise.
::
:: She Moved Through is one of those records with one foot in
:: this world and one in the next-some half-remembered dream
:: that suddenly startles us by its familiarity. It describes a
:: world where dented doors of dreary city streets open into
:: great galactic vistas, where saints compete for the attention
:: of princesses while satellites spy from above, and
:: dragonflies hunt queens with the power to never let us die.
:: "For this record I was thinking of song-cycle-type records
:: like the Zombies' Oddysey and Oracle with its majestic,
:: melancholy pop. Also Tyrannosaurus Rex, before they became
:: T-Rex--particularly the Unicorn album. I admire artists like
:: the Circulatory System, Neutral Milk Hotel, and the Flaming
:: Lips, who do such an ingenious job of taking that baroque
:: approach to rock music while still creating work that's
:: timeless, hard-driving, valiant and moving." The album title
:: itself nods to a haunting Irish ballad "She Moved Through the
:: Fair." Throughout there is a tunefulness that suggests
:: despite his hard rock background, Mattson never got over the
:: AM pop radio of his early 70s childhood, where the likes of
:: Sweet, Paul Simon, and the Miracles all once rubbed
:: shoulders. This lends an air of fun and hope to the sometimes
:: difficult, tragic subject matter.
::
:: "I couldn't continue to write songs and pretend that these
:: individual losses of family and friends, all young women,
:: didn't affect me to the core," Mattson explains. "But I
:: didn't want to make an album that just made people feel sad.
:: I wanted to take that experience of loss and despair and
:: unfairness, and make something about the mystery of it all,
:: about the beauty of being alive."
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:: Buy it if you like it!!
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