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| | Artist : Kelley Polar | |
| | Album : Love Songs of the Hanging Gardens | |
| | Label : Environ Source : Retail_CD | |
| | Cat. No. : ENVCD005 Size : 58 MB | |
| ª Genre : House StrDate: 2005-11-14 ª |
ª _ Quality : 176kbps/44.1khz/Joint Stereo RipDate: 2005-11-17 _ ª
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| | n hearing the more introspective songs of his friend and famed | |
| | German composer Robert Schumann, the Austrian dramatic poet Franz | |
| | Grillparzer said: ôHe has made himself a new ideal world in which | |
| | he moves almost as he wills.ö | |
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| | Kelley PolarÆs debut full length Love Songs of the Hanging | |
| | Gardens is one of those new ideal worlds, a hand-stitched homage | |
| | to the Romantic eraÆs lieder with roots in the melancholia chic | |
| | of 17th century England. Whereas Schumann went wild with | |
| | syphilis, threw himself into the chilly Rhine river after it all | |
| | got a little too much to bear and later died alone and | |
| | irrecoverably insane in an asylum near Bonn, Kelley Polar has | |
| | sopped up the dreaded black bile with the glowing synchronicity | |
| | of early 80Æs R&B, Italo Disco and Moroder-like future dreams | |
| | that spin the loneliness of alienation into the poetry of simply | |
| | being alone, ravished by oneÆs own thoughts and feelings. | |
| | | |
| | The ten four-minute nocturnes on Love Songs successfully map a | |
| | path between the introspection of the bedroom and the group | |
| | ecstasy of the dance floor; between the seemingly insurmountable | |
| | distance of outer space and the inner space of the dream or the | |
| | terrestrial space of the country yard. After recently attending | |
| | the prestigious Julliard School of Music as a viola student and | |
| | releasing a handful of alluring singles on New YorkÆs Environ | |
| | Records over the last few years, splitting his time between deep | |
| | solitude on a New Hampshire farm (where Love Songs was recorded) | |
| | and the bustle of Manhattan, he has pulled these tensions taut in | |
| | his music. Rather than sounding muddled or overextended, though | |
| | the albumÆs conceptual contradictions are often its most | |
| | enchanting assets, making constellations out of street lamps, | |
| | transforming disco-influenced string passages into coiling vines | |
| | wrapping around your waist, morphing the moon into a mirror ball, | |
| | ripping the roof off dance night at the planetarium and letting | |
| | the starlight spill in, a warm, crisp bliss. | |
| | | |
| | Kelley PolarÆs shy vocals at times recall Arthur Russell or a | |
| | more sheepish Junior Boys, but without the primordial wonder of | |
| | the former or the plastic tear anomie of the latter. Once they | |
| | sink in, however, PolarÆs vocals and lyrics prove to be something | |
| | entirely different. Repeated lines like ôI canÆt wait until | |
| | youÆre back here in the dark with meö or ôIÆll love her ætil she | |
| | makes me lose my mindö are romantic to the point of asexuality, | |
| | transcending our messy bodies, invoking trance-like cosmic | |
| | passions verging on obsession; when he sinks into terrestrial | |
| | love on ôAshamed of Myself,ö he does it with a quietly cathartic | |
| | disgust, confessing ôI donÆt want to share you, I just want to | |
| | possess, you make me ashamed of myselfö against a stiff-necked | |
| | Prince-like beat that diffuses into polyrhythmic percussion and | |
| | string flourishes, an eerie blend of the orgiastic and tightly | |
| | restrained. | |
| | | |
| | Produced by Environ label founder and Metro Area member Morgan | |
| | Geist, Love Songs falls perfectly into the Eviron Records | |
| | aesthetic: a highly detailed but economical pastiche of | |
| | organic-sounding disco and dance lightly carbonated by | |
| | electronics but more concerned with harmonic richness and subtly | |
| | intoxicating textures. Still, the difficulty of assigning Love | |
| | Songs to any particular category is that itÆs too ôacousticö and | |
| | strongly song-based to fit comfortably alongside contemporary | |
| | electronic dance music and too moody and sincere to resonate with | |
| | the fixed-pose meta-referential dance pop of say, Annie, Robyn, | |
| | or the Knife. Love Songs of the Hanging Gardens is the sound of | |
| | disco falling asleep in an open copy of Confessions of an English | |
| | Opium Eater, bloodied hearts splashing in the milky way, and the | |
| | comforts of the resolutely melancholy, a dream all to itself; | |
| | semper Polar, semper dolens. | |
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| | STYLUSMAGAZINE.COMÆS ALBUM OF THE WEEK: NOVEMBER 14- NOVEMBER 20, | |
| | 2005 | |
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| | Tracklisting: | |
| | | |
| | 01. Cosmological Constancy 2:58 | |
| | 02. Here In The Night 4:15 | |
| | 03. Tyurangalila 4:43 | |
| | 04. My Beauty In The Moon 5:06 | |
| | 05. Vocalise (From Here To Polarity) 3:53 | |
| | 06. Ashamed Of Myself 4:53 | |
| | 07. The Rooms In My House Have Many Parties 3:49 | |
| | 08. Matter Into Energy 4:04 | |
| | 09. Black Hole 4:48 | |
| | 10. In Time 4:37 | |
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| | 43:06 | |
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ª _ Total: 00:43:06 _ ª
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