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:: Release Info:
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:: Artist......> Testface
:: Title.......> Doctor Won't You Get Us to Dawn
:: Label.......> Sleepsound
:: Genre.......> Indie
:: Rip.Date....> Oct-30-2005
:: Street.Date.> 000-00-0000
:: Source......> CDDA
:: Quality.....> VBRkbps - Full Stereo
:: Play Time...> 43:25 min
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:: Track Listing:
::
:: 01. All the Glass Prayers
:: 02. Sounds Don't Come Around Here
:: 03. Go Calligraphers
:: 04. Til the Sun Breaks Down
:: 05. Blood
:: 06. Hold on Merry-Go-Round
:: 07. Pinwheels in the Daffodils
:: 08. Picture Picture
:: 09. Kings Castle
:: 10. Outro
:: 11. Lucile and Reinhild
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:: Release Notes:
::
:: Testface, the brainchild of David Snider, hails from central
:: Oregon, via years of winters in the cold woods of New
:: Hampshire. Almost a decade of woodsheding and selectively
:: chiseling out songs in the shadows produced this years
:: "doctor won't you get us to dawn".For this release he has
:: harbored an arsenal of trusted friends made up of local indie
:: accomplices and academic monsters to create a surprisingly
:: different kind of album. Parts psychfolk parts experimental
:: Americana, the songs are spacious and lonesome with a deep
:: yearning for solace. Testface is poignant, wounded, and
:: endlessly searching.
::
:: From an early age he was exposed to grave hymnal stanzas on
:: Sunday mornings, the quirky accordion playing of his
:: eccentric Swedish mother and the solemn dark madrigals of his
:: German composer father. His first full-length, excluding
:: years of mailed cassettes to colleagues, was titled "What To
:: Cut" . Self-released in 1998, this bare bones haunting
:: treasure has slowly received underground acclaim. A Tascam
:: sketchbook of sunlight captured in various bedrooms, it
:: paints fragile acoustic heartbreak with the tiniest of
:: pop-hooks and the expanse of a national forest.
::
:: The live shows are sometimes quiet ghostly guitars with naked
:: nerves exposed, while lately the full band shows have been
:: wide sweeping walls of sound with his powerful yet
:: unpredictable ensemble. This prolific artist is a gasp of
:: cold fresh air and his deeply affecting music will leave you
:: with a feeling of hope in your gut.
::
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::
:: "While Snider's lyrics are often inscrutable they contribute
:: to an atmosphere that feels like a musical snowdrift, subject
:: to the whiteouts of his emotional tableau."
:: - The Eugene Weekly
:: 3.24.2005
::
:: Doctor Won't Get Us To Dawn instead trades in quiet organic
:: bleakness while teasing the boundaries of pop folk music...
:: Equal parts YHF-esque Wilco and Americana-tinged Moon
:: Safari-era Air, Testface succeeds in presenting an album of
:: solid, memorable songs that are performed and recorded with
:: meticulous, ambitious care... While second, third, and fourth
:: listens (preferably with headphones) are required to really
:: appreciate Testface's cottage industry art pop, time invested
:: will unearth a surprisingly fertile little gem.
::
:: -bluemag.com
:: 7.5.2005
::
:: It is the care and attention to unmatched detail that makes
:: albums like these (the rare, the few, the obsolete) so
:: fucking brilliant - the way a vocal is placed just below the
:: drums, but around the keys (see: "picture picture"), or
:: placing the vocals down in a well that is shared by an
:: acoustic guitar and a trail of barely audible feedback ("hold
:: on merry go round" - the track that reveals the albums title
:: line). One of the finest 2005 will reveal.
:: SCTAS
:: - 8.5.05
::
:: "The superb hooks, great beats and terrific melodies that
:: span the entire album will insure the a feel good time for
:: all who take in the Snider's sound. And for those who like to
:: dig deeper, get a little more out of the experience, Testface
:: more than provides one with enough sonic and psychological
:: mysteries, puzzles, clues, and other oddities to play with,
:: consider, and try to figure out. One of the great albums of
:: 2005 and with Testface an emerging force in the independent
:: music world... one of those must own records, complete in a
:: gorgeously designed digi-pak as random and rare as the sounds
:: it houses."
:: -Uncommon Folk
:: - 8.12.05
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:: Buy it if you like it!!
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