Artist.......: The White Birch
Album........: Come Up For Fair
Label........: Glitterhouse
Genre........: Indie
Catnr........: GRCD616
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: Dec-08-2005
str.date.....: 000-00-0000
quality......: VBR/44,1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: http://thewhitebirch.one.no/thewhitebirch.html
track title time
01. Seer Believer 03:52
02. Strom-Broken Tree 03:19
03. Your Spain 04:21
04. The White Birds 05:31
05. Silent Love 04:34
06. June 03:53
07. Stand Over Me 04:40
08. Small Hours 04:15
09. We Are Not The Ones 02:45
10. The Astronaut 03:40
11. New Kingdom 04:57
Runtime 45:47 min
Size 61,7 MB
Release Notes:
After great critical acclaim of their last album,
Norwegian trio The White Birch comes around again
with no intention of resting on their laurels. This
time, their atmospheric and melancholic dream pop
is brighter, lighter and even grander than before.
And they keep the melody sacred.
The White Birch are reminiscent of little other
music, only a few references so far have been
mentioned more than once: Sigur R≤s, Talk Talk,
Coldplay. More commonly, though, people have
associated the music with the northern landscapes
and vast nature, and with music of that same
background, like Kings Of Convenience, R÷yksopp,
Jan Garbarek. Perhaps because of their directness
in pursuing beauty and emotions? Still, the
rareness of their sound is reflected in how
different people describe them: Close to none give
the same references.
Ola Fl°ttum, HC Almendingen and Ulf Rogde have
spent ten years cultivating the expression of The
White Birch - from angry, lo-fi Sonic Youth-like
riffing, through industrial prog and even charming
singer-songwriter pop, before finding their current
sound with the beginning of the Millennium. Their
previous record, Star Is Just A Sun (2002), took
four years to make, whereas the new record has been
completed in merely three: TWB believes in music
that is made like diamonds - putting time and
endurance into the pressing of mountains of coal
into intensely focused drops of honest nature, and
then polishing it with handicraft and love into a
human expression of beauty - to produce something
that will last.