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Year :: 2003
Label :: Attack Nine
Cat No :: ATTCD004
Genre :: Folk
Tracks :: 10
Size :: 59,6 MB
Source :: CDDA
Bitrate :: VBRKBps
Rel. Date :: 25-11-2005
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Echoing with so much space and distance that the
reverbations thereof bounce back about three decades,
Women & Children make out-of-time music that's misty
and mystical, wistful and whimsical, drawing their
spirit from the celestial bodies of the VU
family-tree; from lysergic hazes reminiscent of the
'out' times of the Velvet Underground, to the
amusical mantras of the Dream Syndicate, to the
sombre lamentations of Nico. Vocalist June Serwa has
her Nico-ness down, too; her voice all mournful
murmurings pushed down into a deep register; she
casting such out from behind piano, organ, or
percussion in a fashion that most befits the
out-of-time threads that so often cling to Women &
Children as they strut through mood-music minus most
of the platitudes of postmodernist soundtrackists,
with the combo's unironic communal communing seeming
to cast them as flower-child throwbacks in a miscast
modern age. I mean, at their most baroque, they
occasionally settle in audio territories nearly
reminiscent of the ad-hoc fantasias assembled by
Areski in his work with Brigitte Fontaine; though
this reminiscence has more to do with those notions
of spirit than it does to do with the specifics of
musical arrangements and hot record-collections and
such. On their debut disc, the Paris-born quartet
--consisting of two Americans, a Canadian, and a
Frenchman-- oscillate b'tween moments of flowery
post-hippiness and cloistered guitar-droning-ness;
their devout Nico-ism often falling off into
freefloating moments whose spun-out spinnings turn
the kind of crystalline circumvolutions that
modernist drone sweethearts like Windy & Carl arc
across glacial horizons. To call it 'beautiful' seems
reductionist, for me; this disc weaving a more
complex web than merely laying out musical modes of
established prettiness.
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[01] Today To Die [03:59]
[02] Guitar Wars [03:09]
[03] Geyser Eyes [03:55]
[04] Velcro [05:26]
[05] Headless [04:03]
[06] Day Four [04:56]
[07] Magic Lantern [02:32]
[08] Micro Dolly [01:30]
[09] Bear Feet [15:04]
[10] Untitled Hidden Track [02:26]
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