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Artist......: We Are Winter's Blue and Radiant Children
Album.......: No More Apocalypse Father
Label.......: Constellation Records
Genre.......: Rock
Catnr.......: CST180
Source......: CD
Rip.date....: 2024-10-25
Str.date....: 2024-09-13
Quality.....: 786 kbps avg / 44.1kHz / 2 channels
Url.........: http://cstrecords.com
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1. Rats And Roses 5:48
2. Tremble Pour Light 6:36
3. No More Apocalypse Father 5:28
4. Uncloudy Days 4:59
5. Dangling Blanket From A Balcony (White 13:31
Phosphorous)
6. (Goodnight) White Phosphorous 8:09
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,: WE ARE WINTER S BLUE AND RADIANT CHILDREN (WAWBARC) is the new :,
: quartet of Mat Ball (Big Brave), Efrim Manuel Menuck (Godspeed :
:' You! Black Emperor, Thee Silver Mt. Zion), and Jonathan Downs ':
,: and Patch One (both Ada). On NO MORE APOCALYPSE FATHER they :,
: present six modal lullabies drenched in seared distortion, :
:' slathered across striding electronic pulses. Ball and Menuck ':
,: began creating music in and for the bleakest moments of Montr al :,
: winters: We re honoring that idea of winter, when you come :
:' inside and your house is warm, a place that only exists because ':
,: of how cold it is outside, says Menuck. They later recruited :,
: Downs and Patch to flesh out their initial ideas. Menuck met :
:' them in 2015 when recording Ada s final self-titled album at ':
,: Montr al s Hotel2Tango, the same studio where they combined to :,
: make this record. :
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,: NO MORE APOCALYPSE FATHER is an album about witnessing :,
: bleakness from a place of safety. Carrying newfound descriptive :
:' depth, thanks to the quartet s open-ended songs freeing him ':
,: from writing in meter, Menuck likens his lyrics to photorealism. :,
: On opener Rats and Roses he sings of an unnamed city struck by :
:' an unknown cataclysm, but the details are local: specifically, ':
,: his neighbors inadvertently poisoning birds when tackling a rat :,
: infestation. It s backed by blown out synths and guitars :
:' reaching a soaring crescendo. Seeing things from a distance ':
,: and not being able to intervene happens a lot on the record, :,
: Menuck explains. If you re a feeling and thinking person, :
:' that s just part of the human condition. We watch horror ':
,: unfolding from afar, unable to do anything concrete to change :,
: it. :
:' ':
,: A powerless witness, able to describe but not intervene. :,
: Dangling Blanket From A Balcony (White Phosphorous) references :
:' Michael Jackson holding his child over a hotel balcony in ':
,: 2002 the bizarre media spectacle still lodged in Menuck s :,
: psyche. This and the album s closing track also elegize white :
:' phosphorous, a technology of war designed to light up ':
,: battlefields but capable of inflicting horrific burns on those :,
: it touches. Illumination and horror in one, here underpinning :
:' scenes picturesque and terrifying. The last song (Goodnight) ':
,: White Phosphorous is deliberately like a lullaby, says Menuck. :,
: Written from the viewpoint of watching white phosphorous :
:' falling outside your window. ':
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: Scorched and tarnished and laden with harrowing imagery, NO :
:' MORE APOCALYPSE FATHER is also a record bathed in light: the ':
,: bewilderment of hopeful spirits witnessing despair, watching a :,
: blizzard of distress unfold outside from a place of relative :
:' shelter and comfort. You could call that emotional ambivalence, ':
,: maybe numbness. But those words are too passive for the weight :,
: of conflicted feeling resonating through the album. :
:' I never know how I feel on an overcast day when the sun is ':
,: still bright despite the grayness and the light is very flat. :,
: The colours become more saturated, and you see a single flower, :
:' say a morning glory, whose colour is so vibrant beneath the ':
,: gray, I don t know if that s a lovely sensation or a terrible :,
: sensation. It s both, says Menuck. :
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